Links to Local Data Server From Intranet Do Not Work On IE For Mac

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durdledoor - 23 Sep 2005 09:38 GMT

Morning All

I have recently designed my company Intranet, and the pages contain
many links to a networked data server, known as filestore. These links
work fine on IE for windows. However, on IE for the mac, they do not
work. Would anybody know a reason why?

Thanks
durdledoor

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Joshua Levitsky - 23 Sep 2005 16:12 GMT

On 9/23/05 4:38 AM, in article
1127464702.842261.22940@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "durdledoor"
<wilkes_daniel@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Morning All
>
> I have recently designed my company Intranet, and the pages contain
> many links to a networked data server, known as filestore. These links
> work fine on IE for windows. However, on IE for the mac, they do not
> work. Would anybody know a reason why?

Post the URLs (changing the server hostname if you like) and we can see.
Maybe something another pair of eyes might spot that you missed.

-Josh

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durdledoor - 12 Oct 2005 14:42 GMT

Sorry for the late reply here Josh

I thought that I'd receive an email to confirm, but never did. Just
thought i'd pop back to have a look and saw your reply.

As it happens, seeing as my files are on the Intranet I wouldn't be
able to make them available for you to see.

But, as an example, a typical link would have the following code

<p><a
href="file:///U|/Reference/Committees/ITUC/Minutes/Minutes%202005/ITUC%20Minutes%2014072005.doc"
target="_blank">July 2005</a> </p>

The u drive is the drive on which the data server is situated.

For some reason a mac won't open the link. I have since found out that
for security reasons, Firefox does not allow links to local files.
Would this be the same for ie on the mac?

Thanks very much for any help.

durdledoor

> On 9/23/05 4:38 AM, in article
> 1127464702.842261.22940@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "durdledoor"
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> -Josh

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