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Connect a cPanel WebDisk under WinXP

The procedure describes how to add a "Network Place" to the "Network Places" folder under WinXP, using the SSL WebDisk utility description from and installed cPanel. The hostname given in the URL given shown here is 'host.example.com'. In order for this to work, you must have a real hostname OR an IP address for a server running whatever SSL WebDisk protocol WinXP understands, AND the server has installed. More information about this when it becomes available...

1. On the "Map Network Drive" dialog, there is a link at the bottom, just above the buttons called "Sign up for online storage or connect to a network server" - use that -
2. In the "Add Network Place Wizard select "Connect to another network server" to specify the URL of the web disk; click "Next"
3. Provide the URL of the WebDisk as the "Internet or Network address" – the URL should be of the form https://host.example.com:2078/; Click "Next"
4. Accept the security certificate; click "Next"
5. Provide Login Credentials (Username & Password)
6. Provide a name for the network place [I typically use something like username@hostname]; Click "Next"
7. Click "Finish" on the "A network place has successfully been created" dialog. [this is the final dialog of the Wizard]

This will create a "Network Place" in your Network Places folder.

UPDATE

While this procedure did create a "Network Place", I later found that the filesystem of the remote computer was not writable by the Windows file system API calls (made by Windows Apps) [WinXP we're talking about]. No solution found, yet. -pdw 2009.10.28

Labels: cPanel, SSL, WebDisk, winxp

posted by pd wilson   #   14:44