How to: Link to a folder on a shared drive

Question

_{Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:57 PM}

I want to link a folder from a shared drive to a folder in a Document library. The goal is to have people click on a folder on the Sharepoint site and it will take them to a folder in the shared drive containing a list of meeting minutes and other presentations. Instead of uploading all of the documents to the SharePoint document library.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

All replies (2)

_{Thursday, June 27, 2013 7:27 AM ✅Answered}

Hi NLH,

You can create a link in quick launch or document library view page (e.g. AllItems.aspx), point to your shared drive folder path with \server\folder (or ), then user can clik link to shared drive folder.

Or you can use SkyDrive Pro client to sync the shared drive folder to a SharePoint library, the fiels will automatically syncronized between SkyDrive Pro folder and SharePoint library.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/sharepoint-server-help/what-is-skydrive-pro-HA102822076.aspx 

http://en.share-gate.com/blog/what-is-skydrive-pro-in-sharepoint-2013

Thanks

Daniel Yang
TechNet Community Support

_{Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:29 AM ✅Answered}

hi

with standard functionality it is not possible. It is better to use quick lunch link (or any other links outside of the list, e.g. in global navigaiont) as Daniel Yang suggested. If you really want to do it like you described, you may create custom http module which will check the target url of each request and if it will go to the appropriate folder, open shared folder in explorer (redirect to UNC path).

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