FileHyperlinkProblem

[Guest]

Using Outlook 2000, Windows 2000 Server.
When I enter a protocol into an email message, for example:
<file://m:\Data\Shared\myfile.doc>
or
file://m:\Data\Shared\myfile.doc
the path shows as a hyperlink before and after I send it. The receiver
within our intranet, who has permissions to these folders, points to the
hyperlink, which does appear in blue, underlined, finger pointer, clicks on
it, but nothing happens. I have tried more than one file.

Any ideas on how I could make this work?

 

[Dooza]

Using Outlook 2000, Windows 2000 Server.
When I enter a protocol into an email message, for example:
<file://m:\Data\Shared\myfile.doc>
or
file://m:\Data\Shared\myfile.doc
the path shows as a hyperlink before and after I send it. The receiver
within our intranet, who has permissions to these folders, points to the
hyperlink, which does appear in blue, underlined, finger pointer, clicks on
it, but nothing happens. I have tried more than one file.

Any ideas on how I could make this work?

Your giving them a link to there own hard drive, you need to just use this:

m:\Data\Shared\myfile.doc

thats as long as they have m: mapped on there computer to the same place
that m: is mapped to on yours. Your better off using the computers name like
this:

\\my-computer-name\Shared\myfile.doc

Good luck!

Steve

 

[Brian Tillman]

Your giving them a link to there own hard drive,

I don't see this as true at all. The URL the OP cited,
file://m:\Data\Shared\myfile.doc, should work, provided the drive M maps to
the same device or folder for both the sender and the recipient.

I would ask the OP: what happens if the recipient copies the URL into IE
directly?