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Getting WebDAV to work in Windows Vista

posted by Martin Rubli at 16:30

I've already mentioned that WebDAV is broken in Windows Vista. When the Vista user interface asks you to enter a user name and password for a WebDAV resource it inevitably prepends the hostname to the entered username and tries to log on with that one.

The workaround is to use the command line to map a network drive to your WebDAV folder as follows:

C:\>net use * http://dav.myserver.com/
Enter the user name for 'dav.myserver.com': martin
Enter the password for dav.myserver.com: ****
Drive W: is now connected to http://dav.myserver.com/.
 
The command completed successfully.

The network drive can be disconnected via GUI or via command line as follows:

C:\>net use /delete W:
W: was deleted successfully.

Don't forget to check the output of "net use /?" for inspiration as to what else you can do. :-)


  1. Mark Figueredo says:

    I am still getting an error when the webdav works perfect on win xp

    C:\Windows\system32>net use * "http://myserver.com/"
    System error 67 has occurred.
    The network name cannot be found.

    :(

  2. Martin Rubli says:

    I had that too the other day but rebooting solved it for me. Vista has a lo-o-ot of issues with network shares and drive letters.

    On the other hand, I could never get anything mounted with the net use syntax on XP. If I knew of a good stand-alone WebDAV application I would use it. *sigh*

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