Comments on: More WebDAV Tips, Tricks and Bugs

By: Wayne Glover

Wayne Glover — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:40:45 +0000

hi, i found this site and it looks like it will solve my problem; however, it is for an older version of Zope.
i am using Zope 2.10.5-final.
i found another site https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/143725
this deals with the newer version; however, his patch doesn’t work for me.
i have added to the bug report at the above link. i am posting here just in case you have kept up on this issue and know how to solve it.
thanks for having this post – without experts like you newbies like me would never get anything done

By: Berend Engelbrecht

Berend Engelbrecht — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:03:05 +0000

THANK YOU!!! We searched for ages for the reason why MS Word 2003 would always insist on opening Word documents read-only from our webdav server software. It was driving me nuts. Just added the “MS-Author-Via” header to the OPTIONS response block and as if by magic IT STARTED WORKING. No more read-only documents, no more incorrect document updates, truly a terrific fix. I can’t thank you enough!!

By: ingbabic

ingbabic — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:48:13 +0000

uups, sorry I forgot to mention that using this folder (http://srv1/budget/) from network locations works without a problem!

By: ingbabic

ingbabic — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:45:59 +0000

Hello
I’m having problem with mapping drive to WebDAV location on my XP SP2 box. When I type something like this:
net use z: http://srv1/budget/
I get this:
System error 67 has occurred.
The network name cannot be found.
Srv1 is 2003 server with enabled read, write, browsing, log and index capabilities, execute permission is set to script only, and directory security is set to anonimous access only. Does not help if I click integrated windows authentication.
Is it possible to map a drive to WebDav location, am I missing something?

By: Geoff Lane

Geoff Lane — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:16:46 +0000

Vinay,
When I was working on my WebDAV server, I had to open a number of support tickets with Microsoft to figure out these things. There was no way for me to find these things out on my own (no documentation or anything about non-standard behavior). So, you might have to call them?

I think the mini-redirector might have the same problem with OPTIONS. Also understand that it often requests OPTIONS from the root of the web path (http://www.example.com/) regardless of the path where the DAV server is mapped.

Here are some things to try:
Make sure that only Anonymous authentication is enabled in IIS (not Windows or any others).

Try taking a look at the ‘resources’ links to the Greenbytes.de pages. They have a lot of useful information about bugs in various WebDAV implementations on Windows.

Hope that helps.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:55:54 +0000

Hi,
You mention about not auth-protecting OPTIONS to make WebFolders work. Does the same trick work for mini-redirector too? Because, it isn’t working for me on a fully updated Windows XP SP2 box. I see that mini-redirector does PROPFIND instead of OPTIONS. And it ends throwing up a LANMAN login prompt (it is surely not digest auth dialog as it doesn’t display the Realm Name). Any idea how to get it working? I have MS-Author-via headers set and the same setup works well with Office clients. Without auth protection it works well with all MS clients.

Thanks,
Vinay

By: Geoff Lane

Geoff Lane — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:46:02 +0000

Roberto, I don't know anything specifically about NetDrive or Morgul, but I assume they are similar to something like Webdrive. Webdrive completely hides WebDAV from Microsoft Office products, so the Office WebFolders implementation never gets involved. Everything looks like a local file. This is good in many ways, because the WebDAV implementation in Office has a lot of limitations. Because the Office WebDAV redirector is not involved, it of course can not send LOCK commands. All of this locking would have to be done through Webdrive. So, that's something that you would have to configure on your Webdrive client (or NetDrive or Morgul). Hope that helps.

By: roberto

roberto — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:26:20 +0000

Can WebDav over Plone, made the lock file for MS Word during editing of .doc via NetDrive/Morgul DAV client ?

Roberto

ps: If this comment is inappropriate, remove it…but answer me, plese :)

By: Jim Weller

Jim Weller — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:04:56 +0000

This article is a nice synopsis of a lot of limititions and idiosyncrasies that are not clearly and explicitly stated by MS or the google-able pros on the web.

It pains me that I cannot map a network drive over HTTPS. I can open a network place, but not map it to a drive. If I use plain HTTP, then I can both do a network place and map a drive.

Very frustrating!

Thanks for the information.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:35:38 +0000

Yes, It all sounds like the same set of problems when I was trying to have support for windows odd behavors. in addition to the problems you said I also found problems with authentication. Mini redirector only sends user info via digest it also sends username along with domain user/domain. Also for the OPTIONS method it will not send authentication information and yes requests for the root / url.

I wish they would follow the standards better. I think they could but do this by design. Every time I download an update from windows I cross my fingers hoping that I don’t have to make more changes to accomidate for their poor implementation