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| Use Web folders to share files, part 1 |
| If you want to share files between users on your network, you'll probably use the Windows |
| file-sharing model. Windows 2000 ships with another file-sharing feature called Web folders. Web |
| folders, or World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), is a file transfer |
| protocol that supports secure transfers. |
| Web folders is similar to FTP but provides a more secure method for transferring files over the |
| Internet and intranet. Passwords sent across the network are encrypted. If you're using SSL on the |
| server, the data transferred is also encrypted which makes Web folders the most secure way to |
| transfer files on your network. |
| Web folders can use two protocols: the IETF standard WebDAV or the Microsoft FrontPage protocol. |
| Since WebDAV is platform-independent, you can use it on a machine running Windows, UNIX, |
| Linux, Mac, etc. It also doesn't matter what Web server you have; you can use Microsoft IIS, or even |
| In part two,I'll describe how to install IIS on your Windows 2000 Server in order to use Web folders. |
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