External Link to admin Share

sean.tapscott · 2010-09-23 16:11:10

I'm currently trying to understand and use External Links better. I'd like to link them to administrative shares for each computer: \\computername\C$

But when I put \\[NAME]\C$ in the Link and Filename field (second field), it just sends me to http://helpdesk/front/\\[NAME]\C$ with the [NAME] filling in correctly, but obviously that link is useless. I thought maybe I could send it to my desktop and try opening iexplore.exe from there, but it didn't work either. Perhaps these links are only for websites?

remi · 2010-09-23 16:16:00

You should try something like file:///[NAME]/C$

But I don't think "good" browser let you open such link without lowering "securty" configuration.

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sean.tapscott · 2010-09-23 16:40:55

I tried what you said, but I don't think it'd work even if my security settings were lowered enough, which I could do since the site is on my intranet.

The problem is that when I go to a computer and click the link, it reverses all the slashes into forward slashes, when I entered them as backslashes.

remi · 2010-09-23 16:48:39

In my sample, I don't use backslashes...

sean.tapscott · 2010-09-23 16:49:13

Actually, that's wrong, it works in IE9 but not in Firefox. And I did have to add another slash. First two slashes are for the file:\\, and the second two are for the \\computername\C$ .

So cool, wonder how I can make it work in Firefox, or maybe I won't worry about it.

EDIT: And oh, sorry I missed seeing your post before I posted mine. I guess backslashes act strange in coding, usually escape characters, right?

Last edited by sean.tapscott (2010-09-23 16:50:23)

remi · 2010-09-23 16:58:03

Backslashes are not allowed in URL (even if IE, which is not a standard reference) does strange things with it.

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