By uber-geek on

I'm developing an intranet site, and we have several forms and documents stored on our file server that I would like to link from the intranet site.

The web server is inside the building, and on the network, it can see the drives I'm trying to link to.

Now this worked in Joomla just fine.

As an example, I tried using file:///H:/directory/file.doc as my path.

Drupal says it doesn't exist or I don't have access to it.

I tried several other ways, \\servername\directory\file.doc, http://serverip/directory/file.doc, none of those work.

Has anyone tried pointing to a local file in Drupal?

I'd hate to go back to Joomla, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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extexan’s picture

extexan commented

I'm having the same problem. Does anyone have an answer to this issue?

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ;-)

pcamis’s picture

pcamis commented

I'm also having the same trouble. No luck resolving for me either...

trentmu’s picture

trentmu commented

Same issue. Drupal 6.10.

I'm trying to place a link on our intranet (Drupal) to our shared Photos folder on the network drive.

file://path/PHOTOS

or
\\path\PHOTOS

It works in IE, but not Firefox or Chrome.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

this has nothing to do with drupal-- afaik, file:// syntax is a browser specific feature that IE implements though I have seen workarounds posted for firefox from time to time. Not sure about chrome though.