Webdav network drive in Win7 64 bit not working?

[Jürgen Möhle]

On my Win7 32bit machine, the webdav network drive functionality works like a champ. But on my other Win7 machine the 64bit version of Win7 is installed - and doesn't allow the webdav access.

Any solutions on that?

I experimented with many ideas like site security, regedit authAccess, ... but nothing solved my problem.

[Robert Mota]

Hello,

I solved my issue... so I share my solution: 2 keys was involved on registry.

Using this documentation to configure a Network Drive I found the last think to do (B) : https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence#ConfiguringaWebDAVclientforConfluence-ClientSetup

Best regards

Robert

A - According to this page https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Authenticate+While+Mapping+A+WebDAV+Client+Network+Drive+in+Confluence?utm_source=SAC&utm_medium=dashboard

Windows Vista or 7

1. Click Start; type regedit in the Start Search box, and then click regedit.exe in the Programs list.
2. Browse to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters key.
3. Find a DWORD/REG_DWORD entry named BasicAuthLevel.

4. In the Value data box, type 2, and then click OK.

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The mapping for BasicAuthLevel is as follow:

• 0 - Basic authentication disabled
• 1 - Basic authentication enabled for SSL shares only
• 2 or greater - Basic authentication enabled for SSL shares and for non-SSL shares

B - According to this page https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/WBDV-208

Husein Alatas added a comment - 18/Aug/11 10:07 AM

Customer shared a tips that would prevent Windows in passing null usernames as described here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/network-share-not-working-through-windows-7-home/cc7adcd8-5380-4a48-89ed-bde1125c5f2f

How to do it:
1 . Open registry editor ( Start search - regedit)
2 . Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
3. Create a new DWORD value with the following properties:
NAME: LmCompatibilityLevel
VALUE: 1
4. Restart your PC and try the connection again...

[LucasA]

Hello,

The native webdav windows client is kind of buggy. If I can recall, it only worked properly in Windows 2000, and I have seen problems on it since them.

So, I strongly suggest you to use Cadaver instead of the Windows native client. It's the most efficient dav client I met.

Best regards,
Lucas Timm