Beginner imageIO question (pulling up image over network vs local)

Greets,
I am new to java but not too new to programming. I've googled the heck out of this question and checked the java 2D api and haven't had much luck yet. Take a look and let me know what you think:
I would like to pull up an image file and display it in a jLabel, it works fine if i am pulling up a local file as such:
BufferedImage img = null;
        try {
            img = ImageIO.read(new File("/home/steve/pic.gif"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }But what i really want it to do, is pull up a file over the local network, like so:
BufferedImage img = null;
        try {
            img = ImageIO.read(new File("smb://192.168.1.64/images/pic.gif"));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }However, when i try this second one, i get the following error:
javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!
        at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1275)
        at mypkg.MainForm.load(MainForm.java:143)
        at mypkg.MainForm.<init>(MainForm.java:27)
        at mypkg.MainForm$1.run(MainForm.java:111)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)Can anyone point me in the right direction or give me a code snippet? Much appreciated.

Paul,
All definately valid points. I was able to get it to work if i mounted the smb share to my local filesystem but essentially i am trying to make the application portable so i dont have to mount a drive on the target machine (or create a windows drive map, etc). Although read(URL input) isnt exactly what i was looking for, it works good enough and gets the same end result. i just have to copy the image folder and serv it up via apache instead of samba.
Thanx for your input.

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always available
font. Not so?
It seems to be out of favor.
3. If I decide to stop using Classic, and I'm close
to that time, can I
transfer those fonts to OS X? If so, to which
location is best.
Yes, you can just put it in Users/username/Library/Fonts (or Library/Fonts for all users).

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