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I recently set up a WebDAV share on my http server (Apache 2.2) running Linux, of course.
I can access it without problem from my Linux laptop and also from OS X Tiger, however my friends cannot mount the share in Win XP (Open as Web Folder). They can access the server and browse the content as a web page, similar to how Firefox handels WebDAV (that is, not at all), but cannot access the folders in Explorer as if it were mounted.
From one of these XP machines I did succeed in accessing a different WebDAV folder, one hosted by my provider, so I am convinced my server is not configured properly to allow Windows to mount it.
Apart from php5 all modules are being loaded. Here is part of the server config:
Code:
DAVLockDB /var/log/httpd/DavLock/DavLockDB
<Location /webdav>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
DAV On
AuthType Basic
AuthName "WebDAV"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/passwd
Require user guest
</Location>
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
of course its a windows problem! Windows is the most incompatible OS there ever was. it's usually up to the others to tweak their settings to get MS crap to work.
thanks for your tip, although I had already done, tried or had all that.
what eventually helped was yet another site where this was mentioned:
When connecting over non-SSL connections, append a “/#” to the URL here. Windows XP has two built-in methods for connecting via WebDAV. Appending /# is a workaround that forces the use of the Web Folder Client connection, which will authenticate successfully to the WebDav-enabled folder as configured here.
of all the tricks I tried, I should have come up with this combination as well!
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