link to file doesn't work from other computers on network

[Eric]

Hi everyone. I'm working with Onenote 2007.
I am trying to share a file by inserting a hyperlink to that file. The file
resides on my computer in a shared folder. When I place the link my computer
points to the local file (C:\Documents and
Settings\AllUsers\Documents\NETWORKED_DOCUMENTS\1.JPG). I can open it fine
but others working from thier computers can't. If they set the link to the
same file the path shows up as a networked path
(\\ericsdesk\NETWORKED_DOCUMENTS\1.JPG). Then everyone can open it.
My question is: How can I set a link to a file on my computer that will show
up as a link that other people can open from thier computer without having to
manually type in the netowork path?
Thanks for your help.

 

[xTenn]

Hi everyone. I'm working with Onenote 2007.
I am trying to share a file by inserting a hyperlink to that file. The
file
resides on my computer in a shared folder. When I place the link my
computer
points to the local file (C:\Documents and
Settings\AllUsers\Documents\NETWORKED_DOCUMENTS\1.JPG). I can open it fine
but others working from thier computers can't. If they set the link to the
same file the path shows up as a networked path
(\\ericsdesk\NETWORKED_DOCUMENTS\1.JPG). Then everyone can open it.
My question is: How can I set a link to a file on my computer that will
show
up as a link that other people can open from thier computer without having
to
manually type in the netowork path?
Thanks for your help.

There may be better solutions, but in the past I have mapped a drive to the
same machine I'm using in order to get share names to work out without much
manual intervention...

 

[Steve Hollasch]

That's funny -- I was just playing with this and trying to get it to work for
me as well. What I'd like to do is to link from inside OneNote out to a
common file structure. My idea was to see if I could reference an environment
variable that referenced the root of a common tree structure on multiple
machines.

Sadly, environment variables are not parsed from file:// URL's. Not very
surprising, but it would have been very cool if it had worked. I'm not wild
about pulling all of my files into OneNote itself, which would be rather
useless bloat, in my opinion.