Hi folks,

at work I have windows xp installed. I often have to send a link to a
document that is stored on a network share. To do this, I

1) generate a link in the target directory by right clicking on the file
2) open the link's properties
3) copy the link address in the email message,
e.g. "M:\important\document\file.txt"
4) remove the leading drive letter, e.g. "\important\document\file.txt"
5) select the network share with right click, rename
6) copy the name of the share without editing
7) paste the name into the email,
"freigabe auf \\server\folder\ \important\document\file.txt"
8) and reorder the absolut path and the name of the share:
"<\\server\folder\freigabe\important\document\file.txt>"
9) finally send the email

There must be a smarter way! I already tried to create a folder on the
desktop with absolut links to all needed network shares; this allows me to
open the share with absolut path and skip the renameing. What I want is a
way to rigth-click on the file, create a link, copy it into my mail and
just send it without the annoying drive letter, just the absolut path.

Any hints?

Thank,

Martin

Martin Williges wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> at work I have windows xp installed. I often have to send a link to a
> document that is stored on a network share. To do this, I
>
> 1) generate a link in the target directory by right clicking on the file
> 2) open the link's properties
> 3) copy the link address in the email message,
> e.g. "M:\important\document\file.txt"
> 4) remove the leading drive letter, e.g. "\important\document\file.txt"
> 5) select the network share with right click, rename
> 6) copy the name of the share without editing
> 7) paste the name into the email,
> "freigabe auf \\server\folder\ \important\document\file.txt"
> 8) and reorder the absolut path and the name of the share:
> "<\\server\folder\freigabe\important\document\file.txt>"
> 9) finally send the email
>
> There must be a smarter way! I already tried to create a folder on the
> desktop with absolut links to all needed network shares; this allows me to
> open the share with absolut path and skip the renameing. What I want is a
> way to rigth-click on the file, create a link, copy it into my mail and
> just send it without the annoying drive letter, just the absolut path.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thank,
>
> Martin

I understand you pain, we did the same thing at work. But we never
really attacked it. We resolved the issue by demanding the T:+ drives
be reserved for internal shares. Thus S:\whatever.txt was an absolute
address in an email but it worked on everyones machine.
Howerver*** We wrote an application that demanded absolute drive
letter folders and not URL \\server\data\folder type of things. When
we first went to vista the program did not work. Seems out of the box,
vista shared folders resolve back to the \\server\data\folder format.
This screwed up our software but it has your effect that you want. We
found a setting under users configs that can be changed to fixed this to
work like XP.
This is little help, but I'm sure others will come up with more help.

In Windows Explorer be sure that you have "Show full path in address bar"
selected under Tools->Folder Options->View

Now since you already say you have your shares to folders in a folder on
your desktop, make sure they are \\Servername\Sharename rather than
T:\blahblah\

Now when you open your share to \\Servername\Sharename\Subfolder you just
keep typing \filename.txt in the address bar and you will now have a full
path to copy out of the address bar (Be sure not to press ENTER or you wll
open the file.

Copy and paste that path from Windows Explorer address bar into your
message.


"Martin Williges" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ft5qco$aa2$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi folks,
>
> at work I have windows xp installed. I often have to send a link to a
> document that is stored on a network share. To do this, I
>
> 1) generate a link in the target directory by right clicking on the file
> 2) open the link's properties
> 3) copy the link address in the email message,
> e.g. "M:\important\document\file.txt"
> 4) remove the leading drive letter, e.g. "\important\document\file.txt"
> 5) select the network share with right click, rename
> 6) copy the name of the share without editing
> 7) paste the name into the email,
> "freigabe auf \\server\folder\ \important\document\file.txt"
> 8) and reorder the absolut path and the name of the share:
> "<\\server\folder\freigabe\important\document\file.txt>"
> 9) finally send the email
>
> There must be a smarter way! I already tried to create a folder on the
> desktop with absolut links to all needed network shares; this allows me to
> open the share with absolut path and skip the renameing. What I want is a
> way to rigth-click on the file, create a link, copy it into my mail and
> just send it without the annoying drive letter, just the absolut path.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thank,
>
> Martin
>