Opening files from network shares in Internet Explorer, FireFox or Google Chrome

The security model in many browsers prevent opening of files stored on Windows shares by default. To enable that you typecly have to find a way to allow the browser to open file:// url's.

• Internet Explorer
  IE should be able to open file:// urls without modifications, but may require you to add the url to the trusted website zone. If noting happens when you click on a file:// link, try to open the share from Windows Explorer, to double check that the end-user has access. It may take some time to access the file share the first time, so you may want to map the share locally to speed thing up.
• Firefox
  Please referee to this tutorial on how to enable local files in Firefox: http://www.techlifeweb.com/firefox/2006/07/how-to-open-file-links-in-firefox-15.html .
• Google Chrome
  There is a extension to Chrome called LocalLinks that fixes this issue: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida .

Possible bug: While the instructions about has worked for all installations Searchdaimon has done, so have we also gotten a few reports that it don’t work. If it doesn’t work please see Greif excellent post at our forum for alternative methods. We are currently investigating this.