Hello. I have a webserver set up on site here on which I am putting together an intranet facility (well, an internal website). The intranet server is running Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP and the rest of the network is windows based for now. I am using Joomla to set up the internal site(if that is of any relevance). Let's say I have my intranet server, called Intranet and a file server, cunningly called "fileserver". The file server has an IP of 10.100.100.50 for the sake of argument. I want to be able to link directly to network resources from the site but I can't find a way to make it work. I need to have two different methods of opening/viewing files:
Method 1: Direct Connection Links to files on the file server. So, a direct link to a file called monkey.xls in the \\fileserver\public\primates folder would open MS Excel with that file (or at least prompt for an app like it would if the file was on the web server).
Method 2: Folder Browsing Links to folders on the file server. So that clicking the link would open Windows Explorer (or its linux equivalent) at that particular folder, similar to typing "\\fileserver\public\primates" in the Run dialog box in Windows.
How can I achieve these two objectives using links?
