Problem with accessing shared files on local net work using firefox

PHP
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I have problem with a PHP application while accessing a local shared file using firefox browser .With IE it works fine.But with firefox it showing security error.
I had given a hyper link to access the shared file.
I had given the code as follows.

<a href=“file://192.168.0.230/pdf/p.pdf”>click pdf</a>

Outside the webserver it running well.
Any body have solutions please help me

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Firefox will see this as a security threat as that’s what it does best, in my mind using http://192.168.0.230/pdf/p.pdf should work fine.

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It will not work with out installing a web server on 192.168.0.230 . Aso need to keep the pdf folder inside the web server.I cannot install a web server on that machine.It is a storage machine.

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Hi…
HAve any idea?Help me please…Its very urgent for me.

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I searched around Google and using http:// is the only way to bypass the security error.

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Or maybe you would be willing to install an FTP server on the storage machine, or maybe it’s already running one? That should also work.

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I dnt know anything about that…Can u expalin how can I do it using FTP.
Storage machine has Windows storage 2008 OS.Can u please explain the steps.

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I fed up of this thing…It is very important for my project.Doing an online library.Books are stored as pdfs on the storage…

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you can give the full URL(including your site url) for that, in the href attribute of <A>

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The pdf is stored on a seperate machine.Site is on another machine…

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Can’t you just mount the share from the storage server on the web server and then serve up files from there?

So, just mount the directory you want to serve (say “pdf”) from the storage machine (say “\\192.168.0.230” on the web machine (on P: , say) and then set P: as a directory in your website, and serve the files from there.

It doesn’t seem as though Windows Storage 2008 was meant to use FTP.