file links on Windows servers

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The School system where I work has begun sending out links to documents on windows servers, mostly pdfs, over email instead of attaching the documents to the email, i.e., file://\\aXXXXsmis3\prodev\announcements\dwdflyer.pdf/. I know they are doing this to save space on the servers.
Those of us who use Macs, cannot connect to them or read them. Is there some way for us to be able to get to them? I know they won't give out the IP of the server. When I use the Network Utility to Lookup the server name all I get is the main Exchange server's IP.