Here's what we did in Apache (httpd.conf)
<IfModule alias_module>
...
Alias /share "//myhost/myshare"
</IfModule>
<Directory "//myhost/myshare">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Now we can access the share drive via HTTP from
http://wikihost/share.
It works in all browsers: no need for file: links.
That only works if all the files are readable by apache; at which point
you've just subverted your file system protections. This works fine if
the data is already accesible by everyone, but not so well if the files
have limited access.
V/r,
Ryan Lane