problem with Windows XP web folders and globe icons

[Peter Duerden]

I need to provide users access from Word to templates held in the
_sharedtemplates folder on a website on our corporate network.

In Word it is possible to open a new document and navigate to a
document template via the "On my Web sites" link in the 'Templates'
side bar. This works fine as long as the web folder is visible in the
My Network places dialog box. However, only webfolders which have a
globe icon are visible in this dialog box in Word.

This all works fine on a PC with Word 2003 running on Windows 2000. I
go to the My Network Places icon on the desktop and create a new
network place using an address like "http://myserver/myweb" "myweb" is
a FrontPage web and I get the folder with the globe icon.

If I repeat exactly the same steps on another computer running Word
2003 and Windows XP, I get a folder icon without the globe and if I
look at the properties it displays "\\myserver\myweb" and I can't see
this from the Word templates in My Network Places dialog box. The
website is exactly the same. I have repeated the process several
times on each computer with the same result, i.e. webfolder with globe
icon appears in Win 2000 environment webfolder with no globe in
Windows XP.

Can anyone suggest what the problem is and how I can overcome it?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You first example, is accessing the web / folder via http (Server-based) and your second example, is
access the web / folder as disk-based, bypassing the web server.

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[Peter Duerden]

I understand the differenece between web-based access and disk-based
access.
The point is that in the Win XP environment, I am creating the web
folder in Network Places in exactly the same way as in the first
example, i.e. I enter the address "http://myserver/myweb" in the Add
Network place wizard but when the wizard completes it changes this to
"\\myserver\myweb" without my doing anything and creates an icon
without the globe, although on my Windows 2000 machine, if I take
exactly the same steps, the web folder complete with globe icon is
created without any problem. I take exactly the same steps in both
cases but in Win XP I can't get it to create the web folder with an
icon.