I'm looking for some help in regard to my companies intranet website.

We run an IIS web server that uses very basic and standard html code.
I have turned directory browsing on and point a few links to our main file server where users can open files.

My question is: A user is requesting he be able to open these files on the intranet, make changes and save it directly back to the same location.
The issue now is when they open these files, it will save in their %temp% directory until they do a save as and point it to the correct location (which is a tedious process).

I understand there are scripts that could accomplish this task, but I'm not a guru in this regard.
If anyone has any ideas on this topic, I'd really like to hear them.

Thanks!

why dont you share these files on the local network and let them access from the network folder?
directory browsing from IIS is an overkill for this task

End user is requesting this. Since the user habits using the web site and knowing the location of the files this way, it's a reasonable request.

If it's just html not sure why you're paying for a Windows server and go through the hassle of rebuilding your app each time you change something.

As for your question pretty sure not since when editing it's conventional to open a new file with all the same info then overwrite the old one when saving. Maybe get him one of those insecure online file managers

This post was edited by 0n35 on Feb 27 2014 09:20am

It's not a dedicated Web server, it runs on our domain controller. Not sure what you mean: go through the hassle of rebuilding...?

Thanks for your suggestions. I'm still convinced what the user is asking for is possible.

Gonna have to program this with an asp script or a cron job if you are on iis, when you say he opens a file and it saves to temp directory I assume you mean downloads the file with an ftp manager?

Either way you're not being specific enough on the situation as far as what the end user is using to open/save files, and if he's not using ftpand you plan to add this functionality directly to the site it's definitely bad from a security perspective.

This should do the trick.

http://onedotoh.sourceforge.net/

This post was edited by Kloun on Feb 28 2014 02:54pm