How to mount a webdav server on Windows XP which uses port 8083 rather than 80?

Question

I'm trying to map a webdav share on Windows XP using...

net use w: http://myserver.com:8083/webdav/ /User:smith passwd

I get "System error 67 has occurred. The network name cannot be found."

I can connect on OSX via http://smith:passwd@myserver.com:8083/webdav/.

Answer 1

According http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907306/en and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831805/en and http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-webdav-network-drive.html

Windows XP can only connect to port 80 and can only map to a sub folder and not the root directly.