MAC accessing UNC path
Hi everyone, sorry if this is a repeat question, but I tried searching the group and found no similar answer. We have a web application at work that points images directly to a UNC network share. It works fine on the PC but our MAC users cannot access the UNC path directly from the browser at all.
The MACs have AD login installed, so after some testing on a MAC, I found out that if I first mount the UNC to a local volume then I can access the images. However, my question is would it be possible to simply access the UNC from a Firefox browser? For example, using this URL: file:///servername/sharedname/images/123.jpg
I was thinking if worse comes to worse we will have to:
1) create a script to have all MACs mount the UNC to a volume with the same name
2) modify the web application so that if it's a MAC, then point to the volume instead of the UNC path...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The MACs have AD login installed, so after some testing on a MAC, I found out that if I first mount the UNC to a local volume then I can access the images. However, my question is would it be possible to simply access the UNC from a Firefox browser? For example, using this URL: file:///servername/sharedname/images/123.jpg
I was thinking if worse comes to worse we will have to:
1) create a script to have all MACs mount the UNC to a volume with the same name
2) modify the web application so that if it's a MAC, then point to the volume instead of the UNC path...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Windows XP Pro