This worked but not practical.
The creator of 99.9% of the files going to the server will be Windows users.
So this means someone would have create the alias and zip it from a Mac for every file, each time one gets created.
Can you create a link to a file on a windows server where it...
When I create an alias for the file from the Mac the filename is test.doc alias
When I email the link from a windows machine the alias does not work on the mac. It shows as test.doc%20alias and I tried renaming it test.doc alias but it does not have an application to open it with. Finder...
Thanks very much for the reply.
I mounted the server share via SMB:
When I try to "go to this address" option for smb://servername/sharedfolder/test.doc
It opens up the //servername/sharedfolder in a separate window for viewing and you can open the test.doc then.
I get the same...
We run Macs on our Windows domain and I am trying to get the correct format to be able to email a URL type link to a file on the windows server so that the user can just click the link and the document opens in Word or Excel on the Mac.
I have tried the following...