# Access a network drive

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-a-network-drive/54410>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 22, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-a-network-drive/54410 "2021-12-22T21:00:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![swolnisty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@swolnisty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/swolnisty)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-a-network-drive/54410/10 "2021-12-23T16:47:35Z")

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I have done this as well, though I have accomplished this in kind of a strange way. See my reply to the thread below:

> [@How to Access network drive folder in perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-access-network-drive-folder-in-perspective/52487/11):
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> I have done something similar to this, though I would caution that I was told the method I used is not officially supported by Inductive Automation and there’s no guarantee that this would work in future versions of the software. You can reference directories and files contained within the /webserver/webapps/main directory of your Ignition install directly from a web browser by simply appending the file name to the address of your Ignition gateway. For example, if you placed an mp3 file named ‘…

In this case, rather than accessing the files from the webserver/webapps/main directory, you would just be checking the contents with the os.listdir() function I mentioned in my previous post.

Edit: I guess there's no real reason why you'd need to create a symbolic link within the Ignition install directory, you could create it anywhere on the gateway machine.

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