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

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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

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '11 at 14:34

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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"

answered Jun 14 '11 at 14:34

Jason Gennaro

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Sorry but that does not work. Have tried our UNC and DFS paths with that. – Richard Jun 14 '11 at 14:55
What about modifying the # of slashes after `file:`? `///` or more? – Jason Gennaro Jun 14 '11 at 15:00
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Hi Jason, same problem, it would appear I need to use an addin like this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida# – Richard Jun 14 '11 at 15:05

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

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