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Idea #2196: DAV/WebDAV/webfolders

Written by satbunny the 1 Mar 08 at 14:31. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
DAV/WebDAV (aka webfolders) works very poorly in Ubuntu, whereas it works quite well in Windows and very well in OS X.
It is stopping quite a few of us from using Ubuntu (and Linux) to access organisational servers using the protocol. This is a fix that requires some work and that would feed back into Linux as a whole.. but it would make full or partial migration to Ubuntu much easier. See posts on Ubuntu forums for people with the problem.. BTW I do not know if it is a problem with the Microsoft servers or the whole protocol.. or moving the default to the apparently better davfs2.. see threads..

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Written by satbunny the 1 Mar 08 at 14:31.
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flomar wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 14:43
I'd totally appreciate any further development on WebDAV implementation!

A lot of people already do have (free) access to WebDAV accounts through their mailprovider. unfortunatly it is a bit tricky to use it with Ubuntu (under Gnome Desktop)

Flo

DonQuichote wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 20:40
Forgive me my shameless plug, but I wrote a howto on it:

http://www.howtoforge.org/davfs_ubuntu

Some issues described there are already solved in newer versions of DAVfs.

Just when I finished the howto, I found out that SSHfs was even easier...

satbunny wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 11:22
I suspect this is soluble with fiddling.. but frankly it needs to work out of the box, which a Canonical "sort out" would do..


mistergeorge wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 18:45
You have some solutions to use webdav :
- cadaver in command-line, but it's not really good
- DAVfs which mount the webdav on your pc. I don't like this solution, as it takes a lot of space on your pc.
- nautilus that doesn't deal very well
- Konkeror which is very good but for KDE.

We need something greater to use webdav on GNOME.


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