RE: Vista and EI7 and Sharepoint

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I am using WSS also. I am no expert by any means, but the following is how I
went about it:
1. Log onto Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration.
2. Select create new web application.
3. I chose to create a new IIS web site using port 80 and made sure to
select predefined:network service security account for the application pool.
I have not tested it yet using SSL or a port other than 80. Some of the
other posts on the explorer view subject and WebDav seemed to caution against
it but now I'm not so sure. FYI I removed the port 80 reference from the URL
that is populated, but I can't image that it mattered.
2. Once the web application was created, I selected create site collection.
3. Under web site address it will default to http://your_url/sites/______.
4. Click the '/sites/' drop down box and change it to just '/'.
Continue on and you should be fine. Once you have a web application in
which you have chosen the root folder as described above, any future site
collection additions must use the '/sites/' option. I have not gotten far
enough to test that and see if Vista will recognize those additional sites
once the root site exists.

All this is clearly a bug somewhere between Vista and WSS 3.0 since not
using the root directory on an application and site collection works fine in
XP. And it also worked fine with WSS 2.0 and Vista.


"Lp12" wrote:

Thanks Neal,
We have only WSS topology in my organisation. I don't think I can create a
site collection that's not under sites folder. Do you know anything about it?

"Neal" wrote:

Correction: in the example I used the second reference would be
http://www.domain.com/default.aspx.

"Neal" wrote:

I think I stumbled across something that works. It seems that if you create
your sharepoint site collection immediately underneath the web application
(ie: do not use the /sites/xxxxx managed path approach), explorer view will
work and you will be able to add a network location in Vista. For example
http://www.domain.com/sites/collection/default.aspx will not work properly
whereas http://www.domain.sites/default.aspx will work.

I have not tested it yet, but it may be that once you have an initial site
collection immediately beneath the web application, you will later be able to
add more with the /sites/xxxx virtual directory structure.

Neal

"Lp12" wrote:

Thanks Millete,
The IIS is configured OK. When using XP/IE6 with same credentials I succeed
in changing views.
Any suggestions?

"Neal" wrote:

I have the same problem. Trying to use IE on Vista to access WSS 3.0 site.
IIS is using port 80 and integrated windows authentication. Domain is
trusted in browser. No problem accessing the site except when trying to
browse shared documents in explorer view. Get three domain login attempts
and then just go back to regular shared documents page. Tested on another
machine running XP and explorer view works fine. Tested with different
authentication methods in IIS and no difference. Tested with different port
numbers and with SSL and no difference.

I thought there was supposed to be tighter sharepoint
integration/compatibility with Vista and Office 2007!

Help!

"Lp12" wrote:

Hi All,
I'm getting the domain login window each time I try to change to Explorer
view in a DocLib. I have the server trusted in my browser and automatic
authentication checked. When I put my credentials or domain Admin credentials
I still can't enter.

The same goes to Alert items I get to my inbox. Im getting the login window
once clicking the link, when I hit the Cancel button in the login window I
get into the file.
Any thoughts?
Thanks a lot...
.

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