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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / August 2007HTML links to folder on a domain
We have a windows domain with Mac on them that need to access networked folders by clicking on HTML links. The following works on windows machines on the network but not the Macs: <A HREF='\\fileserver\upload\20078\30-12w'>click here to open your folder</a> In Mac mail we get the error: "Mail was unable to open the URL." Does anyone know the convention for making this link work on Mac? > We have a windows domain with Mac on them that need to access > networked folders by clicking on HTML links. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Does anyone know the convention for making this link work on Mac? Well for one the slashes are facing the wrong direction and single quotes when a standard URL needs double quotes. <A HREF="//fileserver/upload/20078/30-12w">click here to open your > folder</a> > In article <1188499259.797884.298...@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I made the correction to the link, and placed it in a test.htm file, and Safari still comes up and says the page cannot be found. Should some kind of alias to the server need to be created on the Mac client or something? Thanks Dave <onlinefuel@gmail.com> schrieb: >> <A HREF="//fileserver/upload/20078/30-12w">click here to open your >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > some kind of alias to the server need to be created on the Mac client > or something? Sure, that will not work. if you to open a local file with your browser it is: <A HREF="file:///fileserver/upload/20078/30-12w">click here to open your folder</a> On a network share this will work if the share is already mounted and you have the rights to access it this way. Florian > We have a windows domain with Mac on them that need to access > networked folders by clicking on HTML links. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Does anyone know the convention for making this link work on Mac? This is not a valid URL. It doesn't start with a scheme and it uses the "wrong" path separators so it just looks like a relative URL to a file with a really funny name. I don't know exactly but I imagine a proper URL would look something like "smb://fileserver/path/to/whatever".  SignatureMichael Ash Rogue Amoeba Software > The following works on windows machines on the network but not the > Macs: > > <A HREF='\\fileserver\upload\20078\30-12w'>click here to open your That format - \\server\sharedfolder\resourcename is called UNC and, using backslashes like that, is a windows-specific format. Your Mac has no idea what to do with it. The question then is - how is that filesystem accessible to your mac in the first place? If it's, say, a SMB share, you can use a URL in there which looks like smb://servername/sharedfolder/file If it's not SMB, you may have to do something else. Note that when specifying a proper URL, you need to specify the protocol. (http: smb: ftp: etc). SignaturePlain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting On Aug 30, 4:29 pm, BreadWithS...@fractious.net wrote: > > The following works on windows machines on the network but not the > > Macs: [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? > http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting I tried to prefix the URL with file and smb... and file works on Windows but not Mac, while Safari says it does not recognize SMB. When you ask how the filesystem is accessible to the Mac in the first place, that is what I'm trying to figure out. I don't know much out the Mac OS. I know that users create shortcuts (aliases?) to get to folders on the network. But I do not know how to create a link that goes there. > On Aug 30, 4:29 pm, BreadWithS...@fractious.net wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Also want to add, when I try the string in the "Connect to Server" box it recognizes the server. But when it's a link on a webpage it does not want to go there. Why is that? > I tried to prefix the URL with file and smb... and file works on > Windows but not Mac, while Safari says it does not recognize SMB. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > folders on the network. But I do not know how to create a link that > goes there. What about file://localhost/ On an OS 9 system that displays the desktop and you can tree down from there. |
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