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Topic: Creating links to file shares in Windows

Posted By: Flapjack
Subject: Creating links to file shares in Windows
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 4:51pm

As far as I can tell, this is not possible. If there is a way to do this, can someone please share?

Basically, I want to create a clickable link to a folder on a network share, ie:

\\server\share\documents\

...or to a specific document, ie:

\\server\share\documents\file.doc

Replies:

Posted By: dougl
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 4:54pm

this is not directly possible - you would have to place the files in the web site and use

http://mainweburl/share/documents/file.doc - http://mainweburl/share/documents/file.doc

Posted By: dougl
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 4:55pm

or in a virtual directory (ie Docs ) and use

http://mainweburl/docs/file.doc - http://mainweburl/docs/file.doc

Posted By: Flapjack
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 4:56pm

I thought about a virtual directory in IIS, but I don't currently have permissions. I'll talk to our IT director about it...

Posted By: Nick-V
Date Posted: 17 October 2007 at 5:15pm

You could use WebDav (network folders) to provide secure modify access to the share using IIS.