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Old 01-21-2008, 03:30 AM
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Re: WebDAV problems

"I. Kinal" <ikinal@myalias.postalias> wrote in message
news:2BBD1F11-DA8B-4444-89FC-DF0308C4FF5B@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems connecting to my WebDAV directories on my IIS 6
> server
> from Vista, problems which do not appear in earlier versions of Windows.
> After attempting to connect to the directory, I get the following error:
> \\myurl\DavWWWRoot is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
> the network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
> if
> you have access permissions.
> This format of the specified network name is invalid."
> I have no idea what this DavWWRoot is, but when I check my IIS logs, there
> is no mention of it. The final entry in the log after I attempt to log on
> is
> one that shows that IIS authenticated me correctly, and it has a status
> code
> of 207, which, from my research, doesn't really tell me much. Any thoughts
> on
> what might be going on here, or how I can troubleshoot this further?[/color]


MS has broken WebDAV in Vista. You need this update:
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=17C36612-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64&displaylang=en[/url]

I actually gave up using it, until I found this out. I suppose many other
people have given up on using WebDAV as well.

ss.


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