RE: Opening a file on the IFS via email link

I even tried a mapped drive.  Took the option to sign on as a different 
user.  Tried a user that I knew had access to the file.  Just told me to 
pound sand and kept prompting me for the userid/password again.

Rob Berendt
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PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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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

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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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