[Macpartners] link to file on AFP/SMB volume from Mac

[Helen Rose]

I have items that I want to make available from a my local fileserver  
(which serves via AFP but can also serve via SMB as it runs OS X  
server) via the web.

I tried using this HTML code:
<a href="afp://servernamegoeshere.mit.edu/RDFileserver/Computer% 
20Support/Computing%20Templates/Contact%20Report%20Templates/contact- 
report.pdf">newest contact report template</a>

However, if I'm already connected to the volume, I get an error  
message from MacOS telling me that, and the file never views/downloads.

I figured I'd try the same but using an SMB prefix, but Safari  
doesn't like that ("Safari can’t open “smb:// 
servernamegoeshere.mit.edu/RDFileserver/Computer%20Support/Computing% 
20Templates/Contact%20Report%20Templates/contact-report.pdf” because  
Mac OS X doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “smb:”.").

Firefox does not recognize afp:// as a valid prefix (so much that it  
won't display it as a clickable link), and when I use an smb://  
prefix, the link becomes clickable, but then I get a nasty dialog box  
with some error about smb not being a recognized protocol.


Yes, I realize I could enable web services on my fileserver, but I  
don't want to have to do that. AFP works just fine, and I don't want  
to add another interface for portscanners to hit me on (and fill up  
my logs).

Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can make afp and/or smb  
resources available through html?

thanks!

--Helen