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Asked: 2026-06-18T11:41:28+00:00

I’m writing an iPad App, which downloads Files from a DMS (over https). This

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I’m writing an iPad App, which downloads Files from a DMS (over https). This works fine. But now I need to download large video files from a shared network drive over a vpn connection.

When I create an NSURL object with

[NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"\\\\filer1\shareName\myFoler\movie.mp4" isDirectory:NO];

and a NSURLRequest with

[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

it results in the following URL:

file://localhost/%5C%5Cfiler1%5CshareName%5CmyFolder%5Cmovie.mp4

Why does it add “localhost” before my \filer1?

And how can i download Files from a shared network drive?

Thank you for your help!
cheers, mike

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  1. Editorial Team

    ios has no support for direct access for files on windows network shares.

    see also this question: SMB/samba support on iOS? or Does iOS support file operations via SMB?

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