WebClient stuck in STOPPING status

[Guest ianw]

I'm trying to use ElephantDrive's TrunkDrive, a way of mounting their

backup server as a drive on my PC using, I believe, windav.

 

It is not however working and its been suggested that the reason is

that my WebClient service is stuck in STOPPING status.

 

I tried setting it to be started manually and, after reboot was able

to start it and immediately received the message that it had started

and stopped, though the status remains "STOPPING".

 

Presumably I need to get this to stay started in order to use webdav

services. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong?

 

XP Pro+SP3.

 

ian

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[Guest smlunatick]

Re: WebClient stuck in STOPPING status

 

On Sep 15, 9:00 pm, ianw <ianworthing...@usa.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to use ElephantDrive's TrunkDrive, a way of mounting their

> backup server as a drive on my PC using, I believe, windav.

>

> It is not however working and its been suggested that the reason is

> that my WebClient service is stuck in STOPPING status.

>

> I tried setting it to be started manually and, after reboot was able

> to start it and immediately received the message that it had started

> and stopped, though the status remains "STOPPING".

>

> Presumably I need to get this to stay started in order to use webdav

> services.  Can anyone suggest what might be wrong?

>

> XP Pro+SP3.

>

> ian

> ...

 

Windav seems to be the same protocol that allows "us" to access

Hotmail within Outlook Express (????) Microsoft has been

"threatening" to turn this protocol off since they believe it will

stop a huge number of SPAM emails from being sent out (especially if

sent thru Hotmail.) I am not certain if they done this yet?