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Mike D - 24 Jul 2007 15:50 GMT

I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the client
workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the question well enough
to get any good responses. I saw it on another site where the hyperlink
pointed to a .lnk file which loaded an Access application, so I know it can
be done. Any guidance would be helpful.

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Mike D
Coding in C# since Feb 2007, ColdFusion since Aug 2000, and JSP since Jan 2000

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Peter Bromberg [C# MVP] - 24 Jul 2007 16:46 GMT

I don't know how you could expect to do this unless your link contained a
FILE:/// directive.
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> I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the client
> workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the question well enough
> to get any good responses. I saw it on another site where the hyperlink
> pointed to a .lnk file which loaded an Access application, so I know it can
> be done. Any guidance would be helpful.

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David R. Longnecker - 24 Jul 2007 18:51 GMT

Any links we've established work just fine placing the UNC path as the HREF
link.

<a href="\\server\shared\">Open Shared Directory</a>

I'm assuming executables would work similar; however, depending on the browser,
it'd prompt to "Run/Save" or something similar. What methods have you tried?

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> I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the
> client workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the
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> Coding in C# since Feb 2007, ColdFusion since Aug 2000, and JSP since
> Jan 2000

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Mike D - 24 Jul 2007 22:12 GMT

I have only tried to link to the shortcut, but it doesn't seem to work once
the page is published to the web server. I didn't try the UNC, but will when
I get back to work tomorrow. Thanks.

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Mike D
Coding in C# since Feb 2007

> Any links we've established work just fine placing the UNC path as the HREF
> link.
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> > Coding in C# since Feb 2007, ColdFusion since Aug 2000, and JSP since
> > Jan 2000

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