How can I access a webDAV folder as a UNC share?
- by Amar
first of all I am just getting to know about webDAV and appreciate your
patience.
I have a virtual directory on IIS 6 (windows 2003) that is based on a network
share on a file server different from web server. something like
www.mysite.com/myreports where myreport is based on \myfileserver\reports.
I have been asked by network folks to not use the UNC path like that for
security reason and try to explore using webDAV. What I have been told is
webDAV can give me a UNC path without requiring to open the ports required
for a file server UNC path. Then I can use the new UNC path to map my virtual
directory and my asp.net code will not require any change.
Help: Being new to webDAV, I did some research over the web. I now can create
a web folder in fileserver. I put IIS on file server as well. I can browse
the content as http:://fileserver/mywebDAVreports which is based on reports
folder.
But I don't know how to get a UNC for this web folder to be able to map my
virtual directory on web server.
I appreciate any help on this.
Regards,
Amar