[ciapug] File linking over mapped network drives

[Chris Hettinger]

I am using FireFox though I haven't seen any problems with opening PDFs...

Just tested it... damn it, it does work in IE. Which for the most part 
is good since that is what the users will be on since this is an 
internal app I can be sure of that.

Thanks for the tip.

-ch

j.weida@mchsi.com wrote:

> Are you testing this in a Mozilla-based browser?  If so, I ran into a similar 
> problem when just trying to open PDFs off the Internet.  I found that 
> uninstalling and reinstalling the Adodb Acrobat Reader solved the problem.
> 
>>Curious,
>>
>>I am listing links to PDF files on html page, the files are stored on a 
>>network drive that my machine has a drive mapped to (R:).
>>
>>I am pulling the file path (R:\dir\) and file name (filename.pdf) from a 
>>database, then constructing the link to the file.
>>
>>However when I click on the link nothing is happening.
>>
>>I went back and added the 'file' prefix but that isn't making a 
>>difference. I thought of the prefix after opening a local document in a 
>>browser it appends 'file:///' before the file path... though I may need 
>>to do that.
>>
>>ex: file:///R:\dir\filename.pdf
>>
>>R: is the drive mapping and will be mapped the same for all of our users.
>>
>>Again the issue is that clicking the link seems to trigger nothing.
>>
>>
>>Thanks for any thought on this.
>>-ch
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