How to enable Basic Authentication for WebDAV on Windows 8

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user1829114 picture user1829114 · Nov 16, 2012 · Viewed 29.1k times · Source

Previously I used to be able to access external data from an http:// URL using only Basic Authentication (Username / Password) as text file from within an Excel (2003 version) on a Windows XP Professional laptop.

I recently bought a new Windows 8 laptop, running Excel 2010 and now I can't get access to the same external data. Apparently Basic Authentication for WebDAV on Windows 8 is not by default enabled.

Searching the internet I only find solutions to enable Basic Authentication for WebDAV for windows version older than Windows 8.

Who has a "simple" solution to resolve this? Note that I'm not a developer, just a user.

Answer

Daniel picture Daniel · Dec 19, 2012

Ran into the same issue. Found a solution here, even though the article is for Windows 7. It works the same.

http://www.yeehawup.com/2011/07/mapping-a-network-drive-to-webdav-share-in-windows-7/

The relevant information from the blog post (which I'm shocked is still up after four years) is to set the registry DWORD

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\
Parameters\BasicAuthLevel

to 2.

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