In my office, we use a case (court cases) management system that's built around Microsoft technologies - the system runs on Windows Server 2008 on an IIS web server, heavy integration with Microsoft SQL Server.
When you go into a case, documents associated with that case are listed within a tab. Clicking on one of the documents opens it directly from the server with a Windows-standard network share URL (for example, \\caseserver\files\casedocs\123xxxx\test.doc). Due to how the links are formatted, they only work correctly in Internet Explorer on Windows-based PCs. Attempting to open them in Firefox or Chrome, even on a Windows machine, leads to no response; additionally, the network share URL is turned into a proper URL with additional, un-needed slashes (file:///caseserver/files/casedocs/123xxxx/test.doc). Definitely doesn't work on Safari on a Mac.
The case management system works fine otherwise - there's no page irregularities or issues with using other functions in the system.
I obviously want to be able to use it with my Mac. Right now, the only way to do that is either a) with a virtual machine, b) by manually accessing documents by going directly to the network share in Finder.
One of the things I attempted was to create a symbolic link (titled caseserver) in my root directory, linking directly to the file share; that doesn't really seem to do anything.
Does anybody have any idea how I can solve this dilemma?
When you go into a case, documents associated with that case are listed within a tab. Clicking on one of the documents opens it directly from the server with a Windows-standard network share URL (for example, \\caseserver\files\casedocs\123xxxx\test.doc). Due to how the links are formatted, they only work correctly in Internet Explorer on Windows-based PCs. Attempting to open them in Firefox or Chrome, even on a Windows machine, leads to no response; additionally, the network share URL is turned into a proper URL with additional, un-needed slashes (file:///caseserver/files/casedocs/123xxxx/test.doc). Definitely doesn't work on Safari on a Mac.
The case management system works fine otherwise - there's no page irregularities or issues with using other functions in the system.
I obviously want to be able to use it with my Mac. Right now, the only way to do that is either a) with a virtual machine, b) by manually accessing documents by going directly to the network share in Finder.
One of the things I attempted was to create a symbolic link (titled caseserver) in my root directory, linking directly to the file share; that doesn't really seem to do anything.
Does anybody have any idea how I can solve this dilemma?