An Url to a Windows Shared Folder

An URL to a Windows shared folder

I think there are two issues:

1. You need to escape the slashes.
2. Browser security.

Explanation:

1. I checked one of mine, I have the pattern:

   <a href="file://///server01\fshare\dir1\dir2\dir3">useful link </a>
   

   Please note that we ended up with 5 slashes after the protocol (file:)

2. Firefox will try to prevent cross site scripting. My solution was to modify prefs.js in the profile directory. You will add two lines:

   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://mysite.company.org");
   

What are the ways to make an html link open a folder

Do you want to open a shared folder in Windows Explorer? You need to use a file: link, but there are caveats:

• Internet Explorer will work if the link is a converted UNC path (file://server/share/folder/).
• Firefox will work if the link is in its own mangled form using five slashes (file://///server/share/folder) and the user has disabled the security restriction on file: links in a page served over HTTP. Thankfully IE also accepts the mangled link form.
• Opera, Safari and Chrome can not be convinced to open a file: link in a page served over HTTP.

Is it possible to link a file from shared drive on public facing website?

it is possible , but \\server (Windows UNC port 445) is a port that was abused and is blocked by many ISP's for almost a decade now.

Your "public" most likely will not have access

file:/// will not work either , as to the user, that means the persons local machine

what you can do is create a virtual directory to your drive or network share in IIS and make sure in iis (optionally can you can enable use directory browsing)

ftp:// is also a possibility as well and what i think you should look into

Linking a UNC / Network drive on an html page

To link to a UNC path from an HTML document, use file:///// (yes, that's five slashes).

file://///server/path/to/file.txt

Note that this is most useful in IE and Outlook/Word. It won't work in Chrome or Firefox, intentionally - the link will fail silently. Some words from the Mozilla team:

For security purposes, Mozilla
applications block links to local
files (and directories) from remote
files.

And less directly, from Google:

Firefox and Chrome doesn't open "file://" links from pages that originated from outside the local machine. This is a design decision made by those browsers to improve security.

The Mozilla article includes a set of client settings you can use to override this behavior in Firefox, and there are extensions for both browsers to override this restriction.

Using Python, how can I access a shared folder on windows network?

Use forward slashes to specify the UNC Path:

open('//HOST/share/path/to/file')

(if your Python client code is also running under Windows)

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