We want to establish a 'kiosk' (not interactive) that will display info from our remote web server that is updated every 5 minutes (GPS showing location of boats). We also want - on the same browser screen, to play a loop of photos that I have set up as a QuickTime .mov file.

We do not want to upload the .mov to the remote server (it is nearly nearly 1 Gig), but need to access it locally. I have tried putting the absolute path (file:/// etc) between <object> and <embed> tags but of course the remote server has no idea where this HD is the browser does not play the file.

Sorry to be so dumb - but could someone please help this amateur!

You need to link to the .mov file using a fully qualified URL, but that file still has to be on a web server somewhere. Accessing a hard drive on an internal server is an open invitation to hackers.. even if you could do it.

One other thing.. do not use the <embed> tag. There are 2 stickies at the top of this forum that list resources on how to add media w/o the <embed>.