How do you reference an internal file in Firefox?

[jmarch51]

Hello, I am relatively new to the board and I have a question and I don't even know if I am wording it right but, how do you reference a file internally that is on a different server.

This is how I am referencing it and it works in IE

<a href="\\site-nas1\Administrative Doc\Company Forms\2006
HOLIDAYS.pub">Form Name</a>

but in FireFox I get page can not be found and this address get put in the URL area.

http://intranet.companysite.com/:%5C%5Csite-nas1%5CAdministrative%20Doc%5CCompany%20Forms%5C2006%20HOLIDAYS.pub

I tried putting

<a href="file:\\site-nas1\Administrative Doc\Company Forms\2006 HOLIDAYS.pub">Form Name</a>

but that didn't work either, I didn't get the page cannot be found but it didn't spawn the document either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jeff

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[ChadSEO]

Jeff,

The following link works for me in both FireFox and IE.
file://///site-nas1/Administrative Doc/Company Forms/2006 HOLIDAYS.pub

Not sure if it works on all browsers, but hopefully it will work for you in at least those two.

Chad

[jmarch51]

Thanks Chad , i'll try that. I appreciate the quick response.

Jeff

[jmarch51]

Chad

That didn't seem to work for me, it works fine in IE, but in Firefox it is the same problem, the document doesn't open in Firefox. Not sure what the problem is. Any other ideas?

THanks

Jeff

[ChadSEO]

Jeff,

Not sure what the problem would be, that worked fine for me in both. In case I screwed something up in translating my test, here's the exact code I used:

<a href="file://///webdev3/www/test.html">Test Link</a>

Only other thought I had was maybe it's the spaces, you could try replacing them with %20's. Maybe someone else will know what the problem is.

Chad

[jmarch51]

I tried the %20 for the spaces but still no dice, it obviously something on my end. Thanks for your help though I appreciate it.