Re: Linking My Documents to document library

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I wouldn't use WebDrive; I'd map a standard drive letter to your WSS Document Library using a path that looks like this:

\\www.myserver.com\mysite\mysubsite\mydoclibfolder

For example, a Shared Documents doclib on a server called "wssbox.com" on the root site would look like:

\\wssbox.com\Shared%20Documents

Map a drive to that, and redirect My Documents to that mapped drive.

Why not use WebDrive? XP already has a WebDAV redirector built-in, and Office 2003 understands that, when a file is opened from a network share, it should check to see if that network share is actually a WebDAV location.

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Dustin Miller
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Prem wrote: 
Can someone please assist me with linking the Windows "My Documents"
folder, through the internet, to a WSS document libarary?
The document library is accessible from internet.
I started doing the following:

Since the (Windows) My Documents folder properties does not allow to be
linked (moved) to a web share, I created a WSS drive letter with
WebDrive.

Then, i linked the My Documents folder to the drive letter which was
connected to a document library. Apparently all worked fine. The only
problem is that when opening i.e. a word file directly through My
Documents, Word creates a hidden copy with the character ~ in the
filename. which is rejected by Sharepoint. Therefore, saving to My
Documents is possible, but opening a Word file from My Documents is
not.

Any help is appreciated

.

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