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• 06-10-2008, 2:58 PM

  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 8:10 PM Posts 7 trnsfrmrsr

  XP clients throwing strange WebDAV errors Reply Contact I've been working a while now on setting up secure webdav access for a file sever with iis 7 and the webDav plugin. I've followed the IIS.net setup guide for iis 7 and webdav etc. However, for some reason, with or without security enabled, xp clients when trying to open file throw the error "the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." For now, I've removed certificates and I'm just trying to get this functioning for users with IE 7 and XP (seems to work fine in vista for some reason).   I've checked permissions, etc and everything seems to be in order yet for some reason, webDav just isn't fully functional when a user accesses it from an xp machine.  I've tried this from multiple xp machines with the same results.   Has anyone run into this problem or have any idea on where to start tracking this down?

• 06-10-2008, 6:41 PM

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  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 8:10 PM Posts 7 trnsfrmrsr

  Re: XP clients throwing strange WebDAV errors Reply Contact I rebuilt the server and set it up using the exact instructions at: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/350/installing-and-configuring-webdav-on-iis-70/ Now i can connect with the WebDAV redirector on the local server using the local admin account. However, as soon as i try to access the WebDAV directory as a network user (I added Domain\Group in both authoring and webDav authoring) I cannot. Is there a new step in Server 2008 to get AD authentication working in IIS?

• 06-10-2008, 6:49 PM

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  trnsfrmrsr Joined on 06-09-2008, 8:10 PM Posts 7 trnsfrmrsr

  Re: XP clients throwing strange WebDAV errors Reply Contact The exact error upon exectuion of the command is: "System Error 1920, The File Cannot be accessed by the system"  According to the WebDAV setup tutorial, this means that the user does not have proper permissions, however, I created authoring rules to add user groups domain\user which the account I'm trying to do this with is under. I've also granted full permissions to the same domain\group to the folder underneath it all.

• 06-10-2008, 8:57 PM

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  robmcm Joined on 05-26-2006, 9:05 PM Redmond, WA Posts 75 robmcm	Re: XP clients throwing strange WebDAV errors Reply Contact Have you looked at the following tutorial? http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/386/using-the-webdav-redirector/ Also, on your Windows XP clients, are you connecting to http://myserver/ or http://myserver/path/? The WebDAV redirector in XP did not allow connecting to the root of a web site. Robert McMurray
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