I'm designing a web page to be used offline and use it as a quick links site for folders and files we use everyday in our department. The files and folders are located on the shared drive, however the drive letter is different on some of the computers we use. .... How do I create a link to a specific file in this situation? On my computer the shared drive is G:\ but on other computers it can be I:\ or J:\. There must be a way around this issue but I haven't found the answer yet. Please help. Thank you.

I am not sure what you mean by an offline webpage? where are you going to keep it so that everyone can access it? Do you have an intranet system? what are you designing it in?

If you could provide a bit more information then I might be able to help.

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Perhaps use the internal IP address or computer name in the path.

By "offline web page" i mean that the html document will have links to files on the shared drive that everyone accesses.. the index.html document will not be uploaded onto the intranet. So, all the spreadsheets we need to access each day will be on this one web page but we will be using it to click links/shortcuts to access computer folders and files on our network drive.

I'm using coffecup HTML editor, HTML 4.0 with some CSS. I don't know much programming language but I'm learning as I go and I am not sure how to write the <a href> command so that people at various computers where the shared/network drive letter is different can still access the files and folders links.

For example... if I create a link to an MS Excel spreadsheet on the network drive, my shared/network drive letter is G:\... so I'd write the link as
<a href="G:\Department folder\Working\blahblahblah.xls"...etc...... but, how would I write this so that someone using a computer that has a different shared/network drive letter be able to access the file once they click on the link? If their drive letter is I:\ or J:\ for example? Would I have to use some sort of Java code of "if-else"?

I hope this makes my problem clearer for you. Thank you for any help you can give

Tom -
How would you create a link using the IP address of the network drive?

Hi,

Sorry I don't have a solution but I'm seeking one that is similar. I want to insert a link to a file in an excel spreadsheet so that a particular file or directory on a network drive is opened when the link is clicked within the *.xls.

Uh, it's a mac network so I'd want to have an application open a file OR open a directory in a new finder window.

Thanks

You should be able to you the full bathing to the server I think it is called the UNC. get rid of the drive letter and put the full path in.

I suggest you check with your network administrator for specifics on how to call files on his network.