Creating hyperlink to a network file?

Hello All,
I am having issues with Adobe Acrobat and hyperlink to a network file. I am using Acrobat XI and I have successfully created a link to a text that "Open a File" located on our network share. It works great, when others are executing the PDF from the network share, but when I send the PDF to another user and he/she tries to click the link it adds the local computer path in front of the "original" path of where the file is located.
Is there a way to correct this?

You attached the PDF to the email. The reciepent views the PDF from within the email client/application or saves the attached PDF to the local machine's hard drive. In either case, yes, Acrobat and Reader resolve the link from within context of the local machine.
Network shares typically are provided a mapped drive.
Perhaps "X" or "S" or whatever.
If this is common to all users then simply place the path shown in the file browser's address bar in the body of the email.
Example:
"X:\PDF\Saves\" would, when clicked from within the body of the email, open a file browser session to the "Saves" folder and display whatever files were in the folder.
Or
"X:\PDF\Saves\xxxx.pdf" would result in the PDF being opened in the Adobe Reader / Acrobat.
How a PDF can refer to the contents of another PDF file read section 7.11 File Sepecifications in ISO 32000-1.
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_200 8.pdf
Be well...

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K,
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Thanks for the reply. I wish we could get Lepard server but the budget didn't include money to get it unfortunately.
Any chance of looking at the budget again? It seems like an awful lot of work for something that only costs $500.
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