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WebDAV working but with issues

simon — Fri, 12 May 2006 10:56:37 GMT

Alf,We got WebDAV up and running on one of our Alfresco servers with normal authentication (internal database). We use Alfresco 1.2.1 on RHEL 4. I can access the WebDAV client form WinXP Pro, no problem there. Mount a drive (http://our_server/alfresco/webdav), login and done.Issue 1: When the WebDAV

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

simon — Wed, 24 May 2006 09:23:28 GMT

*bump*

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

gary_spencer — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:56:36 GMT

Hi,

Issue 1.

The WebDAV server uses a servlet filter to authenticate users so the authentication is tied to a session. If you click on a document and an application tries to open the file it may be creating a new session.

What applications/file types are you seeing this with ?.

Issue 2.
This just seems to be the way WebDAV works on Windows. Unless a specific application adds it's own WebDAV handling, such as MS Office, then most file types don't do anything.

Issue 3.
Needs to be investigated.

Cheers

Gary

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

darwin — Thu, 25 May 2006 22:01:40 GMT

Neat, this answered the exact issue we were running into (Issue 2).

Something to add in relation to this…

If for example, I open an Excel document from my WebDAV directory, in Windows, I see the file gets locked in Alfresco, which seems to me like normal behaviour. And if I close/save the document, the document gets unlocked in Alfresco.

One detail though, while the file is locked… If I try and click on "View Details", I get an error page concerning a JasperException. If I get the file unlocked, all is fine again.

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

linsys — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:58:19 GMT

Is there any way I can add WebDAV functionality for PDFS and JPGS and other non MS office type files?

Is this a local problem or a server side problem?

I would like to double click on PDFs and have them open in adobe and show as locked in alfresco.

Thanks.

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

gary_spencer — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:05:11 GMT

Hi,

Try setting IE as your default browser, this can fix problems where file types do not seem to work with a WebDAV connection as they do in Windows Explorer.

Cheers

Gary

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

linsys — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:40:57 GMT

Yes that seemed to work…

The only other problem I have is that adobe acrobat and probably some other apps won't save directly to the web folders in "My Network Places"

I have some web folders created and setup in "My Network Places" which I can explore just fine… however when I open a PDF in acrobat and then try and do "save as" and select "My Network Places" the web folders show up.. but when I select one of the web folders I do not see "Subfolders"… I know the subfolders are there because I can see them when I access "My Network Places" and the web folders directly.

Hope that makes sence.

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

aatamer — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:57:59 GMT

For our application, the WebDAV access level granted to a user must mirror the access level in Alfresco Web. Could someone please let me know if this is being tracked in JIRA anywhere?

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

kevinr — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:40:59 GMT

The user permissions and security model is identical across all Alfresco access points; webdav, ftp, web-client, template api, javascript api etc. It sounds like the application itself is having trouble accessing the shared drive?

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

aatamer — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:55:17 GMT

ok I tried WebDAV on another machine and that user did indeed work. The user only saw what he was supposed to see. The reason mine didn't work was because i had logged into WebDAV with admin access before. Somehow, the browser kept my old login & password and used that, even though I was using a normal user and a new WebDAV connection.

Thanks for getting back to me too.

Re: WebDAV working but with issues

itayh — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:39:46 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem with webdav authentication but could not find any answer. I already authenticate the user with alfresco. If going to files in webdav I do NOT want any more authentication. Does anyone knows how to disable it?

Thx