Access folder on Web Server using C#

Question

I am trying to find ways, by which a user can open a folder on web-server on button click in a web application, based on windows authentication and no impersonation.

Two methods, that i have came across are :

Using href link, it works, but only in IE.

<a href="\\test\c$\xyz">Open</a> "
Using C#, It doesn't seem to work, i gave permissions to Application Pool and Users to access the folder, but was getting access denied.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"\\test\c$\xyz");

<"a href="\test\tr2\xyz">Open<"/a>" are you sure it will open folder on web-server? — Dzmitry Martavoi, Nov 09 '12 at 20:33
Thanks for your insight, I deliberately added those (""), so that the string could appear, and not the html element. — Nanu, Nov 09 '12 at 20:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

Starting with "accessing to administrative shares isn't a good idea", if your users attempts to access to it as normal user (i.e. probably not logged/verified by a domain controller) will surely fails.

Assuming you want to access to a granted share you should link using file: as URI scheme.

Local folder:

<a href="file:///D:/Downloads/">click me</a>

Remote folder:

<a href="file://///test/sharedfolder/">click me</a>

here works both with IE and FF.

Read this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx

Taken from: How to open a windows folder when clicking on some link on a HTML page using Python

Access folder on Web Server using C#

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