Linking to shortcuts

[Guest]

I want to place a link on my Intranet that points to a shortcut on the client
workstation. So far I have not been able to phrase the question well enough
to get any good responses. I saw it on another site where the hyperlink
pointed to a .lnk file which loaded an Access application, so I know it can
be done. Any guidance would be helpful.

 

[Guest]

I don't know how you could expect to do this unless your link contained a
FILE:/// directive.
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[David R. Longnecker]

Any links we've established work just fine placing the UNC path as the HREF
link.

<a href="\\server\shared\">Open Shared Directory</a>

I'm assuming executables would work similar; however, depending on the browser,
it'd prompt to "Run/Save" or something similar. What methods have you tried?

 

[Guest]

I have only tried to link to the shortcut, but it doesn't seem to work once
the page is published to the web server. I didn't try the UNC, but will when
I get back to work tomorrow. Thanks.