Topic: map a drive to webshare

[surfetish]

Hello all and thanks for the excellent software and work put into it. It´s a pleasure to use.
I installed the webshare contrib. I can see it online and connect and upload file thru a browser. All good.
My problem comes in when I try to map a drive to it using windows add network place wizard. Windows says
"the folder you entered does not appear to be valid, please choose another."

What am I missing here?
The goal is to be able to back up roaming laptops over the net no matter where they are. I thought I could create webshares, map a drive to it. and then use backup software to copy to that drive. any other ideas are welcomed and appreciated.
Thanks in advance.  

[bpivk]

Deleted

[mmccarn]

Tricky application (backing up roaming laptops), to which I don't yet have a good solution...

You could install cygwin (or cwrsync) and configure a script that runs on the laptops to connect to your SME and perform an rsync backup.

You could use WinSCP to "synchronize" your laptops with a location on the SME server.

I think that BackupPC allows laptop backups -- but seemed very tricky to setup when I tried a year or two ago...

You could use VPNs to connect to your SME, mount a share, and backup to that.

To answer your actual question, though, I suspect you need to include the username or ibay name in the URL when creating your "Network Place": https://user@sme.server.com/url or https://ibay@sme.server.com/ibay

Or, if you open the webdav share with Internet Explorer there may be a way to convert that into an Explorer window, which you could then add to "my network places" (I thought I'd seen instructions on this once, but I can't figure out how to do it looking at my IE 7 right now...)

[mmccarn]

I thought I could create webshares, map a drive to it

Also, I don't think you can "map a drive" to a webdav share - you can only add it to "My Network Places".  

This means that some things don't work on webdav shares that do work on samba shares...

[surfetish]

Thanks! Very good ideas. I´ll test a few out and see which one works best.
Didn´t know that about the webdav. I saw this
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/help/web/webdav/accessing/windowsxp
and thought I could. But as you can see they are saying that xp support for webdav is "strange". I think thats a technical term.
 

[surfetish]

"the folder you entered does not appear to be valid, please choose another."
I seem to have this problem even when I´m trying to add a network place to the webshare. I tried adding the user name also to the url , same error. I must be missing something (maybe just my brain!)
 I can add a network place to an ibay but not the webshare. I can access the share through a browser with no problem.
I´ll play with this a little longer and if no success I will try a different approach mentioned above.

[mmccarn]

Here are some notes I made long ago on using mod_dav to allow network folder mappings.  These notes are for SME 6.0.1, but the basic requirements will be the same (httpd directives) - I'm not sure that these are all setup by the webshare contrib.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32078.0

[surfetish]

Thanks! I´ll try it out and let you know how i make out. I appreciate your help!