Can't Open Notebooks on New Server - "OneNote Needs a Password"

mtbcpa

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Nov 3, 2009, 2:54:09 PM11/3/09

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I have a small office and we all store and use notebooks on our
server. We moved all of our data to a new server yesterday, and now
when we try to open the notebooks we get a message that says: "OneNote
needs a password to sync some of your notebooks", and we are unable to
open the notebooks. Interestingly, if we open the notebook through a
mapped drive to the location, we get the error. But, if we navigate
directly to the notebook through the network, it will open with no
error. We are having no other problems with this mapped drive.
Thanks!

Bernd

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Nov 3, 2009, 8:32:45 PM11/3/09

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You didn't mention your OS, but if we talk about Vista then you may look
into this discussion:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/b583412d-6580-4b46-86e5-edce6465e1a9

Bernd

mtbcpa

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Nov 3, 2009, 9:38:06 PM11/3/09

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> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsgeneraldevelopmenti...
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> Bernd

Operating system is Windows XP on the workstations and Small Business
Server 2008 on the server. Thanks!

Bernd

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Nov 4, 2009, 8:20:12 AM11/4/09

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2nd try: Are you using WebDAV on your Server ?
There are known issues with Onenote notebooks residing on Web servers:

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2008/01/16/onenote-2007-sp1-can-t-create-notebooks-on-some-servers.aspx

Please read all the comments.

Bernd

mtbcpa

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Nov 10, 2009, 7:36:30 PM11/10/09

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On Nov 4, 5:20 am, Bernd <f...@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > On Nov 3, 5:32 pm, Bernd <f...@gmx.de> wrote:
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> >>> I have a small office and we all store and use notebooks on our
> >>> server. We moved all of our data to a new server yesterday, and now
> >>> when we try to open the notebooks we get a message that says: "OneNote

> >>> needs apasswordto sync some of your notebooks", and we are unable to

> >>> open the notebooks. Interestingly, if we open the notebook through a
> >>> mapped drive to the location, we get the error. But, if we navigate
> >>> directly to the notebook through the network, it will open with no
> >>> error. We are having no other problems with this mapped drive.
> >>> Thanks!
> >> You didn't mention your OS, but if we talk about Vista then you may look
> >> into this discussion:
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> >>http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsgeneraldevelopmenti...
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> >> Bernd
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> > Operating system is Windows XP on the workstations and Small Business
> > Server 2008 on the server. Thanks!
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> 2nd try: Are you using WebDAV on your Server ?
> There are known issues with Onenote notebooks residing on Web servers:
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2008/01/16/onenote-2007...

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> Please read all the comments.
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I don't think I am running WebDAV. I don't even know what that is.
We are not hosting a website on that server. Can you let me know how
to check this out?

mtbcpa

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Nov 10, 2009, 7:52:06 PM11/10/09

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Interestingly, this problem seed to have gone away for a couple of
days, and is now back.

Bernd

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Nov 11, 2009, 9:40:37 AM11/11/09

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> I don't think I am running WebDAV. I don't even know what that is.
> We are not hosting a website on that server. Can you let me know how
> to check this out?

WebDAV:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV

If you are not running IIS on that server then WebDAV cannot be the problem.

Sorry, I cannot help you any further.

Bernd

mtbcpa

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Nov 25, 2009, 7:25:23 PM11/25/09

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Yes, I looked and I am running IIS on that server, I believe that is
because our exchange server is on the same machine, and we need remote
access for Outlook. Is there no solution for this?

pwncpa

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Nov 25, 2009, 8:06:02 PM11/25/09

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So, I am running IIS, is it possible to be running IIS but not WebDAV, and if
so, will that fix the problem do you think?

"Bernd" wrote:

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Rainald Taesler

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Nov 25, 2009, 8:25:09 PM11/25/09

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pwncpa wrote:
> "Bernd" wrote:

>>> I don't think I am running WebDAV. I don't even know what that is.
>>> We are not hosting a website on that server. Can you let me know
>>> how to check this out?
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>> WebDAV:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV
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>> If you are not running IIS on that server then WebDAV cannot be the
>> problem.
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>> Sorry, I cannot help you any further.
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> So, I am running IIS, is it possible to be running IIS but not
> WebDAV,

YES! WebDAV can be turned off.

> and if so, will that fix the problem do you think?

Could be (I am no specilaist on this).

Rainald

Bernd

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Nov 25, 2009, 8:44:46 PM11/25/09

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> So, I am running IIS, is it possible to be running IIS but not WebDAV, and if
> so, will that fix the problem do you think?
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Please read the article I gave you before:

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2008/01/16/onenote-2007-sp1-can-t-create-notebooks-on-some-servers.aspx

To be honest: I don't know how to configure WebDAV.
But if you read the paragraph "Background" of the linked article there
must be something like a WedDAV server.

Mmmmh, I googled:

Here is a link that could be of help to verify if WebDAV is running:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/WebDAV-IIS.html

Bernd

TRAV

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Feb 17, 2010, 4:43:01 PM2/17/10

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Has anyone figured this out yet? Im having this problem and cant find
anything to get it working!

"Bernd" wrote:

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