[ciapug] File linking over mapped network drives

[Chris Hettinger]

> R: is the drive mapping and will be mapped the same for all of our users.

I thought I wrote that. :)

smb share won't work in this case and yes the the mapping will be a part 
of our default drive mappings for all users internally. Very little 
possiblity it would to change unexpectedly. And if so we'll update the 
DB records accordingly.

PLUS, the best part, I just wrote the interface and it's not hardcoding 
the drive, that's the in db records for the path and (Drum role) that 
isn't my problem nor responsibility :) (yay)

:) ha ha.

-ch

David Champion wrote:

> I really don't like hard-linking to a drive letter... does everyone in 
> the company have "R:" mapped to the same location? What if that mapping 
> changes?
> 
> If the intranet server can see the file server, you could also look at 
> mapping the drive as a smb mount on the server, that way the directory 
> mapping is totally server side. That's done with a command like:
> 
> mount -t smbfs ...
> 
> -dc
> 
> Chris Hettinger wrote:
> 
>> 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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