I have a dedicated intranet server running Ubuntu server 11.10. We use an HTML page to provide help to our staff. This works great unless I try to access a file on our network drive. Neither Firefox nor Chrome will get us to that file. I understand that these browsers are coded to ignore this type of request but there must be away to provide this functionality. Has anyone found a solution?

Set up samba if you want to share files with windows machines. After you install samba set up a working smb.conf file.

You can mount the drive, use smbclient, use NFS from another linux box, use smb4k, dolphin or konqueror.

You can also run a ftp server on the server and ftp to it.

You can ssh to the server and use get and put for files.

You'll need to have something shared on the buntu box and set permissions for others to access.

You need to set read write execute permissions on the file/directory. That would be after you get samba or nfs running for file access. or you can ssh or ftp to the box.

Do a search here on LQ for this. This has been answered scores of times.

Might also consider a https server like barracudaserver/barracudadrive.

Webdav might work.

Using ftp:// in some browsers allow you to connect if you setup a ftp server as above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_File_Server

http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

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Actually this capability is provided by the web server not the browser and typically this functionality is disabled for security reasons. Here is one guide to enable apache for directory browsing.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/enablin...tory-indexing/

http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings