As far as I am aware, the WebDAV Redirector is a IIS 6 thing. It exports IIS WebDAV folders as Windows Network shares. It is custom MS stuff.
WebDAV is built-in to IIS5 (5.1) which ships with XP Pro. However, as a server I am not sure the WebDAV Redirection works. I have seen no documentation for this feature in 5.x. PLease correct me if I am wrong. WebFolders are XP builtin WebDAV client functionality. WebFolders will connect to any WebDAV server, it then comes down to compatibility issues. Using XP Clients you can connect to WebDAV Redirector redirected Shares using normal NET or Map Network Drive functionaility. I have not seen anywhere in the documentation for microsoft any mention of the WebDAV redirector functionaility being interoperable with another implementation of a WebDAV server. If anyone has managed to get a network drive from a slide WebDAV implementation other than using 3rd party software, please tell us. Cheers Paul. > -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:38 AM > To: Slide Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Slide and XP drive mapping > > > Paul Hussein wrote: > > 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/xp techov.mspx#XSLTsection126121120120>). Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
