WebDav Map Drive Windows 7

[carnold]

I am trying to map a drive to the document library on a space/site. Here is the format i use in windows 7 map drive dialog box:
http://serverort/alfresco/webdav/Sites/<site>/documentLibrary
When i click "finish" i get the folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Here is my path to the error:
computer->map network drive->click connect to a website you use to store documents and pictures->next->choose custom network location

Alfresco 4.2 on SLES11. This same address works on an apple imac no problem. How exactly do i do this on Windows?

[dlaxtn22]

I am running windows 7 pro I tried the address you posted and it asks me for credentials which I am not sure of cause I tried all the alfresco credentials and the root credentials of the alfresco server and nothing worked.   As far as that link not working for you if you typed it exactly like in your post here there was an extra forward slash before document library. 

[carnold]

So, now i am getting prompted for login credentials when using the above address. I tried my alfresco share username and password = access denied. Do i have to use site\username or something?

[naveenv449]

Hi Carnold,
I was struggling with the same problem for the past two days and finally solved this problem.

Firstly,
check your url. It should be in the below format.
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/webdav/Sites/demo
(Consider demo is the name of the site)

Next,
You need to give some basic authentication values in Registry Editor. Type regedit in start search.
This you can get it from https://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/tasks/tuh-maptodrive.html

Next,
Check that 'WebClient' is also started. This you can check in services.msc

Next,
No need to go to 'click connect to a website you use to store documents and pictures'. You can simply enter the url in the folder text box. Find this in the attachment I have uploaded.

Next,
When it prompts for credentials, enter the alfresco share credentials.

Hope this should work.

[carnold]

naveenv449, thanks for your reply. We do use SSL, so our url looks like this: https://share.domain.tld/alfreco/webdav/Sites/demo. Now that url goes to our apache server which then gets "proxied" to alfreco/tomcat. So to make sure the apache proxy is not the problem, i opened port 8443 straight to our alfresco/tomcat instance. So, the url https://domain.tld:8443/alfresco/webdav/Sites/demo gives the same error, which is:
windows cannot access "url"
network path not found

So i also opened port 8080, which is still running on tomcat. So i type the url as: http://share.domain.tld:8080/alfresco/webdav/Sites/demo and get the same error. Also same error with http://domain.tld/alfresco/webdav/Sites/demo
Also can not get to the ip address: http://192.168.x.x:8080/alfresco/webdav/Sites/demo
The client is windows 7 pro with no AV or firewall running. When i type any of those url's into a web browser, i can get to the space of alfresco that i am trying to get with a mapped drive. Web client is running and i have not made it to the auth part as this error keeps coming up. I CAN get to the alfresco space on my mac using any of those addresses above.

[naveenv449]

Hi Carnold,
I tried with your URL in Windows7. "https://share.domain.tld/alfreco/webdav/Sites/demo". It prompted for credentials. So, problem might not be with URL you are using.
Please make sure
1. Enter the url in text field given in the first window rather than clicking on 'Connect to website that you can use to store your documents and pictures'.
2. Make the authentication changes as these are mandatory and also may cause this error 'The folder you enter does not appear to be valid please choose another'
Pls Follow : https://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/tasks/tuh-maptodrive.html  for authentication changes.



Hope this should work.

[kenw]

This page helped me

https://community.alfresco.com/docs/DOC-4783-client-webdav 

I had to modify the "BasicAuthLevel" value in my registry