Link to files on the Hard Drive

[Angel2228]

Ok, let's give this forum a try!

I am setting up an employee web site, so that users can access files they have stored on our server, from anywhere.

Can I set up a link to access files that are not located within the web? but are just randomly located on the hard drive? For example, the main page comes up, and within it is a link to an Excel Spreadsheet located in someone's personal folder?

is it as simple as

file://computername/somefolder/somedocument

this works for me now, but i am on the same network as the computer. what about if i try to access it from a computer on an outside network?

thanks!!

 

[rgstewart]

You really don't want to be giving people a direct route to the hard-drives of personal computers in your work place. That constitues a MAJOR security risk. If you want to have a look at some companies who provide dashboard facilities, try

http://www.propylon.com

or

http://www.mysap.com

Let the professionals handle that stuff.

 

[Angel2228]

The site is set up so that only employees have permissions to view anything contained in the site. Is this still a security risk?

 

[jlotz]

file://computername/somefolder/somedocument will not work across the Internet. You will need to map c:\somefolder on your webserver to a virtual directory. That way, you can get there by going to

http://www.yoursite.com/somefolder.

Jason D. Lotz
jasonl@hmweb.com

http://www.hmweb.com

 

[uladzik]

It will not work on INTRANET either unless all the users have access to "computername". Overall, have "file:///" links is a bad practice. What prevents you from putting those files that you'd like to reference on the Web server and access them normally via http?

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