Accessing the Document Server under Windows XP

Windows XP - Step 1

Open My network places via the Start button in the lower left of your desktop or by double-clicking on My Computer.

Windows XP - Step 2

Go to Network tasks, open the dialog window Network places and click on Add a network place

Figure 7.1. Adding a Network Resource in Windows XP

Adding a Network Resource in Windows XP

A wizard for adding network resources is launched. Click on Next. In the next dialog window select Choose another network place.

Windows XP - Step 3

Enter the following address:

http://<address>/servlet/webdav.infostore

where <address> needs to be replaced by the IP address or URL of Open-Xchange Server.

Windows XP - Step 4

In the next dialog you have to enter your user name and your password. Please use the same login data as for the Open-Xchange server.

Windows XP - Step 5

In the next dialog window in you can assign a name to the network resource.

Encoding

If you have set your encoding to ISO, please do not use any special characters for file or folder names. OX Server uses UTF-8 encoding.

Windows XP - Step 6

In the next dialog window click on Finish. This concludes the installation of the network resource for the document folder. You can access the newly created folder via your network environment. This corresponds to the folder structure of the document area of Open-Xchange Server.

Deleting

When you delete a file entry in Windows Explorer, you will delete the whole file, i.e., the complete document version history is lost as well.

Explorer

Using the functionality of Explorer, you do not see all the entries for the document, but only the current version of the corresponding file. Version history and any additional information are not displayed in the browser window.