WIndows UNC paths like \\home.iowa.uiowa.edu\tmp\data.txt cannot be accessed. For now the work-around would be to map a drive letter to the location, but I'm sure this often not possible.
\\home.iowa.uiowa.edu\tmp\data.txt
Chris pointed out an area that Larry has made which I could use for testing on campus:
\\spdr0.physics.uiowa.edu\home\jbf\data\istp\omni\omni_cdaweb\hro_5min\2007\omni_hro_5min_20070301_v01.cdf
ChatGPT suggests I use
file://spdr0.physics.uiowa.edu/home/jbf/data/istp/omni/omni_cdaweb/hro_5min/2007/omni_hro_5min_20070301_v01.cdf
as the URI for this. Since there are two slashes, this would work.
Chris pointed out an area that Larry has made which I could use for testing on campus:
ChatGPT suggests I use
as the URI for this. Since there are two slashes, this would work.