We did this, and it worked perfectly. Thanks for the education and your help on this.
FYI, once we got Kerberos working properly, the explorer view problem went away without having to upgrade to Vista. ...Tim From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 7:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint Explorer View Issues What account is your Sharepoint application running under? That is the account (whether it be computer or user) that you'd register the http/spps and http/spps.yourdomain.whatever SPNs under (unless you are using IIS 7) Cheers Ken From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 26 July 2008 5:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint Explorer View Issues Maybe I'm beating a dead horse here, but I've got to try :-) We've discovered that by disabling Kerberos authentication on the site everything works perfectly. So, implied to me that there is a problem with Kerberos authentication on that sharepoint site, which led me to a very nice series about Kerberos on your blog. After reading thru them, I think I understand the problem, I just don't know how to fix it. Hopefully you or someone else here can advise. The server's name is MOSS, but we access it with the name SPPS (set up as a CNAME in DNS) via host headers. When we set it up, we set up a SPN for HTTP and the sharepoint service account on MOSS. My theory is that Kerberos is trying to look up a SPN for SPPS instead, which doesn't exist, and I can't add one because it isn't an object in AD. Any thoughts? ...Tim From: Tim Evans Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint Explorer View Issues Darn, Ken. I was counting on you to have a quick easy fix for this :-). We're working on the Vista upgrade, but we're not quite ready to take the plunge yet. Thanks anyway. ...Tim From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint Explorer View Issues I've been in a similar situation (trying to work out how to get WebDAV rather than FP view working). Been through that paper, looking at network packet captures, and all sorts of things. Pinged MVPs, Microsoft people, and couldn't work it all out. Upgrade to Vista - the WebDAV redirector was completely rewritten for Vista and works now :-) Cheers Ken From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2008 8:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sharepoint Explorer View Issues We're having some problems with some users ability to use Explorer View in shared documents folders on our MOSS server. The symptom is that the get an authentication popup when they change from the All Documents view to Explorer view. They cannot authenticate with the pop up, no matter what credentials are used. If they cancel the popup, they get in, but have reduced functionality (can't drag & drop, copy, etc). The users affected by it appear to be completely random some with IE6, some with IE7, nothing in common that I can see (all are XPSP2 or 3). Googling for help on this yields a bunch of blog entries that all point to a 2006 MS White paper titled "Understanding and Troubleshooting the Sharepoint Explorer View". From reading this white paper, it sounds like we are getting FPRPC instead of WebDAV. Following the troubleshooting steps, we have confirmed that the Web Client Service is running, the content unencrypted over port 80. Manually adding the site to the local intranet zone makes no difference (it shows unknown zone/mixed by default). So, does anyone know how to force IE to use WebDAV on a Sharepoint site? ...Tim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
