This ia a tremendously useful piece of information and solves a problem that I have come across. How typical of M$ to screw things up in this way, but I bet it will work to IIS without this kludge, thus creating yet more vendor lockin...
On Sun, April 23, 2006 01:47, Phill O'Flynn wrote: > > > 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 > > -- Howard LANNet Computing Associates <http://lannet.com.au> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
