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Richard
Richard

Reputation: 22016

How can I create an href link to target a DFS location?

I have a need on an intranet project to create hyperlinks which target files on a DFS location. Now there was a time when for example file://c:\directory\filname.txt would work fine but now I need to use locations like this:

\\companydomain.com\files\sharename\subfolder\filename.txt

this will not work for me using the file:// link format. (amazingly the company internal web browser is chrome, and yes I take credit for pushing that one :-)

Can anyone suggest a solution to this?

Thanks

Richard

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1403

Answers (1)

Jason Gennaro
Jason Gennaro

Reputation: 34855

It looks like Chrome is preventing the internal link for security reasons.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16992

Comment #12 has the fix. Use all forward slashes.

Our canonical representation of a UNC path is:
"file://server/share/foo/bar"

Upvotes: 1

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