Windows XP SP2 and WebDAV

11 Aug 2004

A few of the guys in the office installed SP2 to start testing out and see what problems we will have from users. So far we discovered that where we could mount WebDAV folders on our FreeBSD Apache WebDAV server using the Map Network Drive dialog in explorer this now fails. It does not send the username in the HTTP request at all. Accessing it via File->Open and selecting "Open as Web Folder" using IE still works.

For now the work around we chose is to use Novell Netdrive, it seems like it is a free download and it allows you to mount WebDAV, FTP and Novell iDrive folders on your windows machine. It is much nicer than the mess of doing it through Map Network Drive and having to fiddle usernames etc.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at 4:39 PM

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This is now documented on the microsoft site, there is a registry fix for the issue:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx#EFAA

R.I.Pienaar | September 13, 2004 8:28 PM | Reply

It seems that netdrive is not free... We need some novell licence...
see : http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USCS/DTS/netdrive/

leyeti | October 26, 2004 10:09 AM | Reply

Well, it is available for free download from Novell on the URL above and I dont see any requirement for licencing in its T's & C's so it looks safe to use.

It is also shipped on the Novell Netware CD's and no doubt that is why the link above claims it is only for uni students.

http://support.novell.com/servlet/filedownload/pub/netdrv41.exe

R.I.Pienaar | October 26, 2004 10:57 AM | Reply

You can enable webdav in Windows XP SP2 by doing the editing the registry here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\System \CurrentControlSet \Services \WebClient \Parameters \UseBasicAuth

change the value to 1

if that doesn't work, check this article:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx#EFAA

thanks,

Martin

callback@hotmail.com

martin s | March 30, 2005 6:54 PM | Reply

I'm trying to get a WebDAV folder mounted into the filesystem of XPSP2.
Now what works (but even before did) is getting a connection to WebDAV as a WebFolder whats basicly connecting trough IE.
I'd like to conncet trough the filesystem if possible but that didn't work for me. Since I have no machine without SP2 I can't really tell. So my question is is it possible to mount a WebDAV folder to filesystem without NetDrive?

wabi | August 14, 2005 7:24 PM | Reply

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