(Win32) Mapping WebDAV to Drive Letter

Noah Spurrier noah at noah.org
Tue Apr 23 02:18:53 EDT 2002


Do you need a drive LETTER? Maybe a name in
"My Network Places" will work for you. If you called
it "foo" then you could refer to it with its UNC name
        \\foo\
It's pretty easy to do from the Windows 2000 GUI.
You just add it through "My Network Places" and use
the Wizard. Maybe there is some way to automate this.
        http://www.zope.org/Members/Noah/webdav

How to setup a Windows 2000 WebDAV folder
Step 1 - Open "My Network Places"
    Double-Click on the "My Network Places" icon on your desktop.
Step 2 - Start Web Folder Wizard
    Double-Click on the "Add Network Place" icon. This will start the Web
Folder Wizard.
Step 3 - Location
    Type http://www.MyZopeServer.com:8080/somefolder into the box and click
"Next".
Step 4 - Authentication
    Type in your User ID and Password into the appropriate boxes and then
click on "Ok". (This is the name from an acl_users file.)
Step 5 - Name your Web Folder
    Type a friendly name for your WebDAV folder into the box and then click
on the "Finish" button.
Step 6 - Finished
    Your Web Folder will now appear under "My Network Places".
    Double clicking the web folder will connect you to your Zope folder.

Yours.
Noah

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: (Win32) Mapping WebDAV to Drive Letter


> Thomas Guettler <zopestoller at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> >
> >Does someone know how you could use the win32 api
> >with python to map a webdav server to a drive letter?
> >
> >There is a C library for the webdav part. But I have
> >no clue how you could map it to a drive letter.
>
> This requires an "installable file system driver", which is a kernel-mode
> component.  Unless you are a driver writer, believe me when I say you do
> NOT want to go there.
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>   Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>






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