Hi All
About a week ago i posted a request for help about windows xp and webdav using apache. Unfortunately no-one had experience with making it work. But a fix has come to my attention The trouble is that somewhere along the line M$ decided to disable basic authentication. Unfortunately (as i understand it) Windows doesn't understand Digest authentication either. which basically screwed Windows ability to login. Also this meant that it (Windows) could only authenitcate using the server\username format which apache didn't understand. The trick is to add a registry setting to re-enable basic authentication. I'm sure many others have already figured this out but hopefully this can help someone else. So if the following lines .... Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters] "UserBasicAuth"="1" ... are put into a file called "UserBasicAuth.reg" the user can just double click on to fix the problem without using regedit. AFAIK the remote folder cannot be mapped to a drive letter but it can be saved as a web folder under network places It works for me but I would appreciate some feedback on it before i started giving it to others for use Regards Phill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
