Is this possible with win98 clients? I am looking for an option that appears like a normal mapped drive for my road warrior laptop users Ow Mun Heng (Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:35, Alan Horn wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > >> Is apache with webdav and SSL an option instead here ? > > > > > > > > > I don't get the solution. Can you elaborate? Meaning using an Upload > > >form or something? > > > > > > > > > > Windows XP (and to a certain extent other windows platforms although I'm > > not sure of the compatibility matrix), allows you to 'add a remote > > location' as a folder. > > > > You can add a webdav aware webserver URL as this location. > > > > On the server side, you have apache with mod_dav and mod_ssl (the SSL for > > security as I think you're trying to achieve). Then the location > > definition in your httpd.conf file could be something like : > > > > Alias /webdav/foobar /path/to/foobar > > <Location /webdav/foobar> > > DAV On > > AuthPAM_Enabled on > > AllowOverride None > > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "Foobar File Share" > > Require group webdavusers > > </Location> > > > > > > You open the location on your windows desktop by double clicking just the > > same as you would any folder. > > > > The webserver will authenticate you (probably using PAM, but it's up to > > you how you configure this part) > > > > You can then drag and drop and perform operations as you would any normal > > windows folder, the DAV portion over https is transparent to windows. And > > I suspect the protocol os probably very much more efficient than SMB over > > a wan. Clients for non windows users are also available (e.g. cadaver > > command line Unix dav client) > > https would add additional Overhead though. It's not mentioned, does > cavader actually mounts that as a shared drive/folder? > > > A quick google gives me some links that will help explain further. > > > > This shows some sample setup for windows : > > > > http://www.its.pomona.edu/about_its/help/help_sheets/HTML/winxpwebdav.htm > > > > This is the webdav community site : > > > > http://www.webdav.org/ > > > > Installation instructions for mod_dav > > > > http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/install.html > > > > > > Hope that this helps.. email me offline if you want more help on it :) > > This is certainly interesting. The FAQ states that it even supports file locking > for concurrency support and most beneficial to _high_latency_ environments. > > That is way cool in my books. > > Thanks for the links. I'll read more on it during the weekends and explore further. > > > > >
