Alfresco 3.2 WebDav with Windows 7

[maxim]

I have been trying to get Alfresco to work through both Webdav and Sharepoint Protocoll but have had no success on Windows 7 machines.

With Webdav I cannot write to Alfresco because the PROPPATCH method is not implimented. With the Share Point Protocoll I get only read only access. All this works fine on Windows XP machines.

Has anyone worked out how to get around this?

[machtech]

Hi Maxim,

We got bitten by the same thing, so I implemented a do-nothing version of PROPPATCH into Alfresco's WebDAV which seems to satisfy Vista/7. You can find the patch here: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3651.

Basically, it's just a matter of compiling WebDAV.java, PropPatch.java and WebDAVServlet.java and updating (using jar) the resulting classes into the alfresco-remote-api-3.2.jar file under webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib (which you can then update in the alfresco.war file with jar as well so it is not blown away next time the webapp is redeployed). I unfortunately have been doing this by hand, so don't have any magical way of helping you accomplish it ("man javac" and "man jar" will help on Linux/Unix).

Cheers,
Johan