RE: WebDAV setup on Windows XP (Apache Users)

There are many other WebDAV implementations for Windows/Java/etc, see: http://webdav.org/projects/ for commercial and open source options. You'll find a number of packages are an editor with WebDAV abilities.

Your mileage will vary on performance since every link in the chain between client, network, and server will impact response rates. I've never benchmarked other clients versus Microsoft network drive WebDAV performance against Apache, but it shouldn't be too hard to beat. J

--Mark

Mark Lavi, Enterprise Web Management Team @ SGI

mailto:mlavi@xxxxxxx || phone:+1-650-933-7707

From: Steve Pfister [mailto:spfister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:17 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: WebDAV setup on Windows XP

I've got it working now (sort of). It seems to function, but so far it's unusably slow. Are there any better alternatives for the Windows platform?

From: Vinay Y S [mailto:vinay.ys@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:20 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: WebDAV setup on Windows XP

Webdav in Windows products is broken beyond any hope. Even in Windows XP Pro it doesn't work with certain combinations of updates and patches. Also, MS Office products understand webdav. Even they don't work in all installations as expected. Many a times they start talking FPSE.
Checkout http://greenbytes.com/
http://greenbytes.com/tech/webdav/webdav-redirector-list.html
http://greenbytes.com/tech/webdav/webfolder-client-list.html
http://greenbytes.com/tech/webdav/webdavfaq.html

Also look at Microsoft KB articles. Search on MSDN for "webdav" "web folders" etc.
Overall, its quite hopeless.
For your specific problems there are hacks available on the net. specifically a module that sits before auth and (de)mangles the username.

--
Vinay

On 11/22/06, Mark Lavi <mlavi@xxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a well known "feature" of Windows XP Home and later editions.

Workaround: use a port number after the domain, or use a trailing /. or
a /# on any URL to use WebDAV properly in the setup wizard.

    * e.g.: http://www.atarex.com:80
    * e.g.: http://www.atarex.com/.
    * e.g.: https://www.atarex.com/#

Explanation: the :port number on the domain name, the trailing slash dot
"/.", or slash pound "/#" at the end of the URL prevents the bug which
interprets the resource as a SMB network drive.

Additional editorial and background here:
http://www.atarex.com/services/support/webdav-msft.shtml

--Mark
Mark Lavi, Enterprise Web Management Team @ SGI
mailto:mlavi@xxxxxxx || phone:+1-650-933-7707
-----Original Message-----
From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:42 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: WebDAV setup on Windows XP

You seem to be confusing auth_sspi (ntlm) auth with basic auth.  Or it's
an issue with your client - do you have another non-Microsoft dav client
to try?  And see conf/extras/httpd-dav.conf for an example.

Steve Pfister wrote:
> Sorry if this is a FAQ... I'm trying to set up an Apache server
(2.2.3, I
> think) on XP and I'd like to setup WebDAV on it. Is there any
> documentation on this? I can't seem to authenticate... I've got an
> htpasswd generated authentication file, but it keeps wanting the
> username in the form machinename\username. I'm not sure how to go
beyond
> this point.
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>

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