I want to expose Sharepoint content through mapped network drives. for example, I have my sharepoint document library:

http://Server/sites/mysite/Shared%20Documents/

then I mapped the \\Server\sites\mysite\Shared Documents\ as a network drive, it works fine in my Windows XP box. but it didn’t work in my Windows 2003 Server box, what seems to be the problem?

Second, if my Sharepoint server has a different port number other than default, say, http://Servername:portnumber

what should be in the mapped path, it seems that \\Servername:portnumber\sites\mysite\Shared%20Documents\  didn’t work.

 

 

 

 

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“but it didn’t work in my Windows 2003 Server box, what seems to be the problem?”

Please check the WebClient service of your Windows 2003 server to see whether this has been started. This service can serve the folder view of WSS document library. At Windows 2003, this is disabled by default for saving the system resource; at Windows XP, it is started automatically at the system runtime.

“\\Servername:portnumber\sites\mysite\Shared%20Documents\”

The port is not supported by Windows folder sharing. The UNC name folder sharing path can only use the machine name appending the folder.

The port concept can’t be applied here; it should be used with the HTTP url.

We can specify http url as the sharing path. The steps is listed for you below:

1. At the File explorer, please click the “Tools->Map Network Drive”

2. at the window, please click the link “Sign up for …”

3. at the pop-up window, click next, next and  input the url http://<server url>:<port number>/<doclib name>/ For example: http://mysps:2005/Shared%20Documents

4. click ok to set up this mapping.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any question. My pleasure to be of any assistance.