remote_file support for windows network shares

```ruby
remote_file 'C:\Foo.tar.gz' do
  source "\\\\foohost\\fooshare\\Foo.tar.gz"
end
```

5 files changed, 77 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/content.rb b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/content.rb
index ef55dd77cd..938a7e58f4 100644
--- a/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/content.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/content.rb
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ class Chef
           sources = sources.dup
           source = sources.shift
           begin
-            uri = URI.parse(source)
+            uri = if Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::Fetcher.network_share?(source)
+              source
+            else
+              URI.parse(source)
+            end
             raw_file = grab_file_from_uri(uri)
           rescue SocketError, Errno::ECONNREFUSED, Errno::ENOENT, Errno::EACCES, Timeout::Error, Net::HTTPServerException, Net::HTTPFatalError, Net::FTPError => e
             Chef::Log.warn("#{@new_resource} cannot be downloaded from #{source}: #{e.to_s}")
diff --git a/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/fetcher.rb b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/fetcher.rb
index 249b29186f..91ad11aa34 100644
--- a/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/fetcher.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/fetcher.rb
@@ -23,15 +23,29 @@ class Chef
       class Fetcher
 
         def self.for_resource(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
-          case uri.scheme
-          when "http", "https"
-            Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::HTTP.new(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
-          when "ftp"
-            Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::FTP.new(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
-          when "file"
-            Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::LocalFile.new(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
+          if network_share?(uri)
+            Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::NetworkFile.new(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
           else
-            raise ArgumentError, "Invalid uri, Only http(s), ftp, and file are currently supported"
+            case uri.scheme
+            when "http", "https"
+              Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::HTTP.new(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
+            when "ftp"
+              Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::FTP.new(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
+            when "file"
+              Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::LocalFile.new(uri, new_resource, current_resource)
+            else
+              raise ArgumentError, "Invalid uri, Only http(s), ftp, and file are currently supported"
+            end
+          end
+        end
+
+        # Windows network share: \\computername\share\file
+        def self.network_share?(source)
+          case source
+          when String
+            !!(%r{\A\\\\[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9+\-\.]*} =~ source)
+          else
+            false
           end
         end
 
diff --git a/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/network_file.rb b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/network_file.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..093a388d2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/chef/provider/remote_file/network_file.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#
+# Author:: Jesse Campbell (<hikeit@gmail.com>)
+# Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2013 Jesse Campbell
+# License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+require 'uri'
+require 'tempfile'
+require 'chef/provider/remote_file'
+
+class Chef
+  class Provider
+    class RemoteFile
+      class NetworkFile
+
+        attr_reader :new_resource
+
+        def initialize(source, new_resource, current_resource)
+          @new_resource = new_resource
+          @source = source
+        end
+
+        # Fetches the file on a network share, returning a Tempfile-like File handle
+        # windows only
+        def fetch
+          tempfile = Chef::FileContentManagement::Tempfile.new(new_resource).tempfile
+          Chef::Log.debug("#{new_resource} staging #{@source} to #{tempfile.path}")
+          FileUtils.cp(@source, tempfile.path)
+          tempfile.close if tempfile
+          tempfile
+        end
+
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/chef/providers.rb b/lib/chef/providers.rb
index a5f5386de3..18500d4669 100644
--- a/lib/chef/providers.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/providers.rb
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ require 'chef/provider/deploy/timestamped'
 require 'chef/provider/remote_file/ftp'
 require 'chef/provider/remote_file/http'
 require 'chef/provider/remote_file/local_file'
+require 'chef/provider/remote_file/network_file'
 require 'chef/provider/remote_file/fetcher'
 
 require "chef/provider/lwrp_base"
diff --git a/lib/chef/resource/remote_file.rb b/lib/chef/resource/remote_file.rb
index e56f69941d..69614f0298 100644
--- a/lib/chef/resource/remote_file.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/resource/remote_file.rb
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ class Chef
       end
 
       def absolute_uri?(source)
-        source.kind_of?(String) and URI.parse(source).absolute?
+        Chef::Provider::RemoteFile::Fetcher.network_share?(source) or (source.kind_of?(String) and URI.parse(source).absolute?) 
       rescue URI::InvalidURIError
         false
       end