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I need to map or browse a network folder. I can only use IPv6 in the browser / URL. Is this possible?

I am using two Windows 7 machines, one Vista PC, and one Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. The machines have been assigned the following static IP addresses respectively:

2001::4%64
2001::5%64
2001::6%64
2001::7%64

The network is created on a separate virtual switch in ESXi4.0 server.

SteveC
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Hara
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Follow these steps when specifying a literal IPv6 address in a UNC path:

  1. Replace any colon (:) characters with a dash (-) character.
  2. Append the text .ipv6-literal.net to the IP address.

e.g.

net use x: \\fe80-0-0-0-a0b6-99c9-2f6c-5759.ipv6-literal.net\admin$

or in the map drive dialog:

\\fe80-0-0-0-a0b6-99c9-2f6c-5759.ipv6-literal.net\admin$
Gareth
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Arthur Fatt
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The lazy way - 2001--5s64.ipv6-literal.net. That is, change all colons to dashes; change % to s (for "scope"), and append the Microsoft's special .ipv6-literal.net domain.

The smart way would be to set up proper hostnames for these machines. Windows already does NetBIOS name resolution, DNS would be even better. As fallback, there also is /etc/hosts – although Windows calls it %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. Add a line to it, such as:

2001::4   vm5.example.com

(Disadvantage: Cannot specify an address scope. But your example addresses are global anyway, so shouldn't need one...)

grawity
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