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How to create a link from a webpart to a network drive from SharePoint online
Modern browsers do not support the file:// protocol on web pages for security reasons.
Hi @Mike Mazzie ,
In SharePoint online modern experience, we could use Text web part to insert a link as file://[folder link] format to the network drive then re-publish the page.(Please note this only works in IE browser.)
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Sorry to confuse you, please use file:// rather than File://.
Since mapping a network drive uses WebDav which missed in Chrome,so Chrome doesn't work.
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Thank You! Its to bad it does not work in both IE and Chrome.
The linked worked great but after closing the SharePoint site and reopening the link does not work?
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I have updated my reply, please check it.