linking and sharing files

[Luke Daniel]

Hi yal,

I've got a shared database being shared on old machine with FM9. I also use this old machine as a file server. Its a very simple peer to peer network.

What I'd like to do, but have had difficulty working out, is to create links to folders(located on the file server machine) in the FM database (stored on the same fileserver) and have users accessing the database remotley click on the link/button to launch a link to the fileserver directories/resources.

Any thoughts?

[fseipel]

Under Windows, use script step Send Event to open the folder or file. e.g. Send Event "C:UsersUserDocuments" would open the Documents folder in a new Windows Explorer window. I'm not sure if this works on Macs. In your case, you'd use the network share/UNC path, and the user would need permissions to access the share. e.g. Sharenamepath