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How can I link to folders on company shared drive?

Randy Hansford

I am setting up our confluence page and I would like to be able to link directly to folders on our shared drive, I have been searching the net for answers for 2 days with no success, in a windows environment idealy I would like for it to open up in an explorer window even if I am using chrome/firefox/opera/ie any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Davin Studer

To link to a shared folder you use this format. Keep in mind this will ONLY work with Internet Explorer by default as it is the only browser that supports the file protocol out of the box. You can get extensions for Chrome and Firefox that will enable the file protocol ... sorta.

file://///server/path/to/document.doc

Yes, you need five slashes at the front. The protocol is "file:///" ... with three(not two)slashes. The next two slashes are the beginning of the UNC path.

Firefox extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=search
(In the extension options on the Advanced tab->Trusted tab ->Allow local links

Chrome Extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/locallinks/fkkidcgelfcjmebocoaicnelkbnpgpmm

Amir Vegdani

Hi Davin, How do I manage folders which has space in it. I am unable to link the file saved in a folder which has space in its name.

Davin Studer

Replace spaces with %20

Amy Vochatzer

David - I can't tell you how happy I was to find your answer here. In other questions out here asking the same question, the response is that you can't link to a network drive, and you can only link if it's an actual URL. I've been playing with this for three days to get this to work for me. I'd been given the info on the %20 for spaces, but still couldn't get it to link until I found your response here indicating that you need the FIVE slashes after "file:". I finally got it to work! Thank you - this will save a ton of time for all the people I need to direct to a network drive folder, for them to update weekly stats in a spreadsheet that gets renamed each week with a new date.

AnnWorley

Please see the options Ted posted here:
Confluence: How to place a link to a file on a server share in a confluence page?

Jerry Wang_zepold

Hi Davin,

I had the same question. One thing I didn't understand.

The matrix is

file://///server/path/to/document.doc

my file is e.g. U:\Myfolder

How can I place a link in confluence to my file?

Thank you in advance

Best,

Jerry

Jerry Wang_zepold

And Do you know if it is possible to place a link to ERP System?

Thank you very much!

Best,

Jerry

Davin Studer

If your ERP system is web based then sure. You would just use the URL in your browser's location bar for the link url.

Davin Studer

Unless every machine in your organization maps a U drive to the same server share it won't work ... it would work for you, but no one else.

Michael Taylor

Davin, assume everyone maps to the same drive as ours does. Can you (or anyone) define it in the proper syntax?

At my company everyone has the main server mapped as L:. I have tried varying the string in a multitude of ways on IE and thus far have not had success in getting it to open. below is the example of links I have tried

[file://///server%20(//mycompany.com/shares)/(L:)/Unit%20Team%20(Unit%20Part)%20Folders/(3)%20Diff/50%20-%20WATCH%20DOG/CPM%20Daily%20Schedule.xlsm]

I have tried it with 2, 3 and 5 forward slashes, with and without parenthesis on the L:, as well as without the mapped drive designation.

Server Name as per windows file explorer
server (\\mycompany.com\shares)

Mapped Drive

File Path per windows file explorer

Unit Team (Unit Part) Folders\(3) Diff\50 - WATCH DOG

File Name

CPM Daily Schedule.xlsm

With 2 and 5 forward slashes I error of file not being found, 3 forward slashes nothing happens at all.

res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm#file://server%20(//mycompany.com/shares)/(L:)/Unit%20Team%20(Unit%20Part)%20Folders/(3)%20Diff/50%20-%20WATCH%20DOG/CPM%20Daily%20Schedule.xlsm

Using IE 11.0.9600.19301

Davin Studer

It would look like this.

file:///L:/Unit Team (Unit Part) Folders/(3) Diff/50 - WATCH DOG/CPM Daily Schedule.xlsm

Efreelen Castro

Hi, for some reasons, I am only able to link to our share using MAC protocol. link starts with SMB. But is unable to set it using windows (link starts with file://///). Can someone help please?

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