Emailing a link to a folder

Question

I was just trying to figure out how to send someone a link to a folder on a shared drive via email and thought I'd share my find. There were a few suggestions around, such as using afp:// or file:/// for a file, but nothing of those really worked well.
The short answer is you need to send it using the smb protocol, such as
smb://yourserver.corp.domain/Shares/Folder1/Folder%202/
What I found is that there's no drag'n'drop solution, but you can use a little shortcut.
If you want to send a folder drag that folder into Terminal (under Applications:Utilities) and you might get a path like
/Volumes/Shares/Folder1/Folder\ 2
Go to Finder and continue hitting Command-Up Arrow until you get to the top level. Alternatively hit Command while selecting the folder icon in the Finder window and go to the top level (which is at the bottom of the list). This top level is likely to be your computer's name. Once selected highlight the network share drive that you found out from the step above, e.g. 'Shares'. Then hit Command-I (Get Info). That will tell you the name of the server in the notation, e.g. smb://yourserver.corp.domain/Shares. Copy the server part, e.g. smb://yourserver.corp.domain/ and replace the /Volumes/ part from step 1.
Replace any spaces (or "\ " if you take the Terminal result from step 1) with %20 (the hex character for spaces). There are some other hex characters for non-Latin character sets, such as %5B for [, or %5D for ] etc. Try http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm for a full list of characters.
You now have assembled the link. Not a comfortable, easy way, but something that works. Maybe someone has an AppleScript for that.
Hope that helps.
P.S.: I've tried that on SnowLeopard (10.6) only, but I assume it's the same on earlier and later versions of Mac OS X.

Answer 1

ok... Website 101 lol
When you Publish the files from iWeb, you ask the program (iWeb) to do the clever stuff and make the website you have designed, the easy bit done!! It creates a folder that is home to the pages and files for your site!!
What you need to do now is get that folder of random stuff on the web, or get it to your sister.
Your sister will be able to read the files as she will have something like internet explorer or some other 'web browser'. All a web browser is, is a program that turns that folder of random files you have, or those random files on the internet, into the pictures and words you read on the screen.
iWeb has a habit of making big folders of stuff. This means you might not be able to E-mail the folder it makes because it is too big to send... Hmmm!!
what you may need to do is get some webspace!! Basically this means, a big folder full of stuff on the internet. lol
Then you need to get the files in your folder (the one made by iWeb) and copy them to the big internet folder. There are many ways to do this. The people that give you your internet (ISP) may have given a folder(webspace) when you joined them!!
If not you will have to buy some!! You can get this from anywhere, just go to 'Google' and type in 'webspace'.
Things can get complicated from here, so if you need any more info just post back or contact me on my profile email(click my name above my little picture on the left)
Apologies if i seem patronizing, but i don't know what you do, or do not know!!
Hope this is helping lol
Seb.
You can get this from anywhere really.