Share from the Web 

WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is an Internet standard that lets you share files located on a remote Web server from your desktop machine. To set up a WebDAV directory, first create a physical folder by any name (say, webDAV) in C:\inetpub directory on the machine where your Internet Information Server is installed. Now open your Internet Service Manager, and create a virtual directory in the website from where you want to share files. To do so, select the website or FTP site, right-click and select New>Virtual directory. You’ll come across the New Virtual Directory Wizard.

Type an alias name, say WebDAV, which will enable you to access your virtual directory. Now enter the path to the physical directory you just created and grant the appropriate access permissions. Your WebDAV directory is ready for access.

You now need to connect to this directory from your client machines. There are three ways of doing so. You can either fire up IE and enter the URL to the WebDAV folder, such as http://pcquest.com/WebDAV . All the files in the directory will be displayed in the browser window, from where you can either view or download it to your hard drive. If you want to post files to the directory, you’ll have to use either Windows Me, 2000, or XP. Open My Network Places, and add a new network place by running the Add Network Places wizard. Here, enter http://hostname/WebDAV, where ipaddress is the dns name or IP address of the website where the shared directory is placed, and webDAV is the shared directory. This will create a shortcut to the Web folder in My Network Places. Now you can directly save files from any application directly to the Internet using WebDAV. For instance, suppose you create a file in Office 2000, and want to write or publish it directly to the WebDAV directory. Simply go to File>Save as and from the left-hand panel select My Network places and the shortcut to the Web folder, to save your application or documents in the WebDAV directory.