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Mapped Drive of SharePoint Document Libraries?

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plattze

plattze

IS-IT--Management
Feb 2, 2004
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We've setup SharePoint Portal Server, and currently everyone is using it via Internet Explorer.

One problem though I've found is that anyone using Office 2003 Professional Corporate, when they click on a document in IE, IE completely crashes. The server is running SSL which I'm not sure is causing it or not.

I just found out that inside Word itself, you can browse the Document Libaries which is what I want. However, I would like to expand on this, and would like to create a mapped drive, or something, which all users can use for documents. So for example, if I could make X: be equivalent to typing in the Portal URL into word which shows the Document Libraries.

I would like to streamline Office and SharePoint into Explorer as much as possible, so to normal users they are merely just using normal files inside explorer, but behind the scenes its automatically checking it out for the user, and allowing others to see whos checked it out etc, as well as the permissions.

How can I do this?
 
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This sounds like a bug to me. Maybe some combination of SSL and the Corporate edition causes evil things to happen, because you should certainly be able to get to this stuff.

Word is aware of document libraries in SPS; that's true. They're not on the file system, however, and can't be mapped to a drive in the OS. That's the reason you have a portal: to drive the user to a central location for docs etc.

Phil Hegedusich
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Boy howdy, my Liberal Studies degree really prepared me for this....
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A skeleton walks into a bar, and says "I'll have a beer and a mop.
 
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The whole thing just hands, which causes me to beliebe it has something to do with corp edition + ssl + unsigned ssl key (every opening of IE asks to accept it).

It's fully patched and everything though, so I'm not sure...
 
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You may have to bite the bullet on the key.

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Web Developer
IIMAK
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Boy howdy, my Liberal Studies degree really prepared me for this....
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A skeleton walks into a bar, and says "I'll have a beer and a mop.
 
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