.Mac iDiskUtility for Windows XP

[Archmage]

Mapping your iDisk to a Drive Letter

I mounted my iDisk to the I: drive... makes sense, doesn't it?

1. Open a folder and go to the "Tools" menu and choose "Map Network Drive...".
2. Choose the desired drive letter (I?) from the "Drive" drop-down list.
3. Enter "\\idisk.mac.com\username" without the quotes into the "Folder" drop-down list where "username" is your .Mac username.
4. Choose whether you want to reconnect to your iDisk when you logon to your computer by putting a checkmark in the "Reconnect at logon" checkbox.
5. Click the "Finish" button. Your computer will attempt to connect to your iDisk.
6. You will be prompted for your .Mac username and password. Enter them and click the "OK" button.

Works like a charm!

If you have troubles, you might also try the trouble-shooting techniques for connecting to the Web Folder, such as adding a "?" after your username.

 

[jettredmont]

Originally posted by edesignuk
Just on a side note, for those of you who don't know (I would imagine most of you do), it has been possible to easily access your iDisk from your PC for a long time.
All you had to do was add a "network place" with the address http://idisk.mac.com/YourDotMacUserName and then you would be able to get to everything just the same as with this utility (accept it doesn't actually mount it as a drive with a letter).

Or, of course, you could have used "Tools|Map Network Drive" to map that to a drive letter, just as the utility does.

I'm severely underwhelmed by the utility. I've never bothered using the iDisk Utility on my Mac, but I thought that at the very least it allowed you to easily see how much space you had left on the disk, etc. Granted, I can see how much free space is left on my particular iDisk server (2.5GB of space, according to Windows), but that's just using Windows Explorer, not the Utility. All it does is connect, for those unable to type "http://idisk.mac.com/myusername" and then give "myusername" and "mypassword" in the Windows built-in dialogs. Heck, at least with the "map network drive" option my username is remembered and I just have to type in the password every time I reconnect!

Granted, it makes things one little insignificant smidgen easier (other than having to re-type my username every time), but not nearly enough to justify a download!

 

[morlium]

I don't think many people knew about the "Map Network Drive" option, esp. switchers. This is a good little niche app.

Plus, it's nice to see ".Mac Utilities" in my "start" menu!

 

[Longey Nowze]

I wish they made iDisk work better!

it's too slow and I have braodband! it took me an hour to upload 8MB and then at the end i got an error! i've been trying for with no luck! am I doing something wrong? someone told me this is cuz of webdav, he said if they've used FTP it would've been much better... I don't know can anyone help?

OH! did anyone notice this
February 25, 2003

All .Mac web-based services will be down for maintenance from 1:00 am to 2:00 am PST on March 1, 2003. This will affect the .Mac website and the .Mac related features of our client applications (like iPhoto, Mac Slides Publisher, Backup, iCal and iSync).



iDisk, client-based Mail (IMAP and POP) will be unaffected. Published HomePages will will still be available, but they will not display counters and password protected and FileSharing pages will be unavailable.

it was posted on the .mac support site, it's just for an hour, do think they're going to have something new? I an hour doesn't seem to be enough time to add a new feature but what do I know? lol... I just hope they fix up iDisk

thank you
MaT

 

[AidenShaw]

Re: Re: Windows users and .mac

Originally posted by daRAT
If the program works on XP it should work on 2000, download it and give it a try :]

Well, not always.

Each new version of NT has additional features (APIs) which were not present in previous versions. This is usually forward compatible (you can move an older program to a newer system), but not backward compatible (a new program written using the new APIs won't work on an older version without the APIs).

I've written a number of small disk and filesystem utilities, and know that XP has some public APIs for disk and file functions that you have to use DDK or undocumented interfaces to do under NT/W2K.

While it can be a lot simpler in places to use the XP APIs, most commercial vendors write to the W2K APIs for portability (or do run-time checks and use the XP APIs on XP, and the older tricks on other versions).

Maybe Apple wants you to upgrade to XP?

 

[cshapiro]

MAKE IT WORK

My school has a very strengent policy on using the computers. We cannot install aplications or modify any settings. (EVEN THE SCREEN RESOLUTION!)
I wish apple would make it so that I could downlod the files off of iDisk from the website, so that I could use it for school.
Works on my home PC, but why would I need it to, since I already got a mac and a network?

 

[alset]

I am really shocked by how many people consider this a move by Apple into the PC market. While I don't dispute that they are likely to make such advances, this is obviously not one of them. No PC user will likely have any interest in a .Mac account. This release is for the benefit of existing .Mac users.

With this release, it's easier to load my iDisk from a PC. That's the whole point. Half the barrier between me and my documents has been terminated. All that remains is for Apple to improve support for OS 9. As a sound student, I attend a school that still relies heavily on 9 for apps like DP and PT. Though these are falling in line with X, the school will not upgrade until the apps have been tested for a while. Thus, OS 9 is a formidable foe in the quest to quickly launch my iDisk.

Thanks to Apple for removing half the hassle.

Dan

 

[NSObject]

Maybe it's kind of: get PC users used to Apple Products, think of the OS X on Intel rumors... Apple is heading to the PC Users there must be a reason for this.

greets

 

[MacCoaster]

WebDAV

Mounting iDisk on Windows has always been possible, yes, thanks to WebDAV. That's what iDisk is basically.

Any OS with WebDAV support can mount iDisk, even Linux.