Windows share to SMB filepath conversion

[gquattro]

Hello All,

Our organization is requesting to be able to open Windows network shares from Outlook in SMB friendly format.

For example: When someone receives an email that includes a file path, they cannot right-click and open the destination because it's still in windows format servershare est.

Does anyone know of any easy solutions for converting this path to SMB format? I have tried WinShortCutter but we are looking for a more robust solution than this.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

[mm2270]

Can you post an example of the links they receive in an email here? Because my experience with this in the past was that the OS actually puts a contextual menu service in place automatically to convert those Windows style paths to macOS friendly ones. It should show up under the "Services" submenu when right/control clicking on the link. At least what I recall was that it wasn't necessary to "convert" them at all. The OS just knew how to handle them and open them up correctly.

Take a look at that when you can. I don't have a valid link I can do any testing with, so I'm limited in what I can see from my end.

[gquattro]

@mm2270

For example, they would receive a windows network drive path

Something similar to this:
P: estinfrastructuresoftware

On a Windows machine, you can click the hyperlink and the share will open up, on Mac, it just gives an error stating it cannot reach the destination.

On my Mac, when i right-click the hyperlink and go to Services, I do not have an option for open Windows LInk

[sdagley]

@gquattro P: estinfrastructuresoftware is a Windows local path for whatever is mapped to the drive letter P on the machine it was created on. A Windows network path would be \someservername estinfrastructuresoftware and if you right-click on that and select Open URL from the Services item in the contextual menu it should open it in the Finder.