RE: Opening a file on the IFS via email link

Bob,

I think the problem you're running into is that new versions of Windows don't 
prompt for user names and passwords if the Windows defaults are different. Did 
you try looking at any NetServer documentation or just general Googling to see 
if there's a way to make Windows prompt for the user name?

For the second part, is NetServer running on those problem systems? Are the 
ports for it open? Have you thought about using FTP or HTTP instead? I'd think 
you'd have better luck with those (especially FTP) than with NetServer.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cozzi [mailto:cozzi@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:14 PM
To: RPGIV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Opening a file on the IFS via email link


I am sending out an email to my users after they've converted a database
file to CSV format. In that email I include the URL link to the file on the
IFS, as follows:

  Your file is available by clicking on the following link:

   file:\\mydomain.com\ifsfolder1\ifsfold2\yourfile.csv

The problem is that some users (most?) can not click on the link and have it
open Excel. In stead, it does nothing or gives them a message box that says
"Cannot open file...".

By changing some user IDs and passwords to the AS/400 to be the same as the
network user ID and password, it seems to work. But for others it does not.
I don't know what area to look in to try to resolve this issue.
Any suggestions?
-Bob 


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