Link to network drive?

[bdichiara]

I'm working on an intranet site and I was curious if there is a cross-browser way to link to a network drive?

Right now, I'm using:

<a href="\\servername\folder">Network Drive</a>

however this only works in IE. Is there a different way to do this?

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_brian.

 

[monksnake]

I was interested in this question too. So I went searching and came across this

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8899.html

 

[bdichiara]

Well, I think I'm just going to settle with this answer:

In IE, using \\servername\blah will pop up the drive in a window.

In FF, using file://///servername/blah or file:///L:/mappeddrive_folder will browse the directory

However the method i'm using causes problems with the IE way: I pull my links from a database, and use PHP with header("Location: blah"); to redirect the user to the URL in the database. This allows me to track where they've been before it takes them to their destination. And since the majority of our users are on IE, it's more important that it work in that browser. Thanks for the help.

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_brian.