XP without 3rd party software will only mount a non IIS WebDAV 'share' as a WebFolder. This is only accesible from Office products and products with built-in WebDAV client. Normal windows programs such as notepad, wordpad will not.
However, if you use IIS 6, the WebDAV 'share' gets automatically exported as a normal windows 'share'
so a site http://machine/WebDAV can be connected as net use w: \\machine\WebDAV using IIS WebDAV Redirector.
I think this is incorrect.
The Windows XP "Webdav redirector" indeed mounts a WebDAV server as a drive, but it does not depend on IIS6 (for instance, I think it may work with Apache/moddav).
Rather than that, the issue is that is so buggy that it fails to work with many compliant servers, for various different reasons (authentication, port number != 80, root URL not WebDAV-aware).
As far as I understand the situation, Microsoft is aware of the problems but does not plan to resolve them in the foreseeable future. Funny enough, Microsoft's own marketing material mentions the WebDAV Redirector as new XP feature, so it's definitively a documented and advertised feature that's plainly broken (see <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/xptechov.mspx#XSLTsection126121120120>).
Best regards, Julian
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