VBA pass windows authentication to SharePoint

Question

I have a VBA project that uploads data from an Excel spreadsheet to an Access database stored on SharePoint. All was well until I upgraded to Windows 7. Windows 7 doesn't automatically pass Windows authentication to SharePoint when accessed this way. Now my project will not update my db. How can I get my VBA project to pass that information to SharePoint? I've been searching for 2 days and I haven't found anything helpful.

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem today. The workaround I came up with, which I would love to replace, is to force Windows Explorer to open the sharepoint folder, which triggers the authentication request to the user. Obviously, there are many issues with this solution.