Question : how to map a sharepoint site as a drive

I have successfully mapped sharepoint sites as a mapped drive in the past.

The we changed sharepoint vendors.

Now I can't seem to remember how I mapped the site. Can someone tell me how?

Sharepoint is latest version (v2?) and is a third party hosted solution.

I run Windows XP Pro SP2.

Thanks.

Answer : how to map a sharepoint site as a drive

Sure thing... It's easy enough, there's just a bit of a trick to it.


Suppose you have a Document library somewhere called: "Shared Documents"


Your URL will look something like:

http://SharePointServer/Sites/MySubSite/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx


To map a drive you will need to copy this URL and then double-click on My Computer> Tools> Map Network Drive.

The path that you will enter will look like:

\\SharePointServer\Sites\MySubSite\Shared Documents\

I replaced the "http://" with "\\".   All of the forward slashes '/' are replaced with back slashes '\' and the %20 is replaces with a space ' '.  Further, I stopped at the name of the document library.  The "/Forms/.aspx" just leads to the actual web site (which you don't want).


I hope this helps... let me know if you have any problems with a particular URL.