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Regional Computing Centre (RRZK)

Windows 10 WebDAV

Attention: Access via WebDAV always leads to problems and is not recommended for everyday use of SoFS. It is rather a help for situations in which you need to access documents (read) quickly, but access via CIFS/SMB is not possible (e.g. on other computers or mobile).

Instruction

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  1. Open Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the Start icon and selecting Explorer.
  2. Select “This PC” on the left [Fig. 1].
  3. Select the “Add network address” option [Fig. 1].
  4. Click on “Next” in the wizard [Fig. 2] and then on “Select a user-defined network address” [Fig. 3].
  5. Under “Internet or network address”, enter the path of the folder you want to access. Use the following scheme [Fig. 4] as a guide:
    1. A user's private drive is located at https://sofsdav.uni-koeln.de/private/accountname
    2. The public drive of a user is located at https://sofsdav.uni-koeln.de/public/anfangsbuchstabe of the account name/account name
    3. You can obtain paths for institutional drives from your institution (usually https://sofsdav.uni-koeln.de/projects/name)
  6. Then click on Next.
  7. Enter your user data in the form “ad\accountname” with the corresponding password [Fig 5].
  8. Enter a nem for the networkadress, which is displayed in the File-Explorer [Fig. 6].
  9. The connection will then be established [Fig. 7].
  10. You find the network adress on “This PC” under “network locations” [Fig. 8].

Contact
If you have any questions or problems, please contact the RRZK-Helpdesk