Some even better news.. After some testing I was able to make the drive mapping work on Windows XP with mod_dav and from there I made it work with XWiki's WebDAV... It is still a pain because it requires changing a registry setting, a command line and some constraints on the server (like replying with the WebDAV protocol on the root path of your web server)
Ludovic Ludovic Dubost wrote: > > Hi Asiri, > > I've worked a little on WebDAV interoperability and made quite some > progress. > > We now have on Mac: > > - WebDAV working for browsing and downloading files > - WebDAV working for drag and dropping files > - WebDAV working with vi in view, edit and save (it says on save that > the file was changed while editing although it's not true) > - WebDAV working with a patched version of OpenOffice (with a fix for > locking) or with official NeoOffice in view edit and save > - WebDAV working with TextEdit in view, edit but NOT save > > Mac OSX generates phony attachments to store temporart files. TextEdit > fails because it tries to create a file then MOVE it (it might be > because of the same locking issue as OpenOffice). > > > And on Windows XP: > > With Novell NetDrive (mapping webdav to a driver letter): > > - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping > - WebDAV working with notepad and OpenOffice in view, edit, save > > With Microsoft Web Folders (2 versions on SP2 tested including the > latest patch from Microsoft, SP3 would need to be tested) > > - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping > - WebDAV allowing to double click or open from notepad or OpenOffice > but by copying to a temp read only file. You then can SAVE AS to the > WebDAV folder. > > It might be possible that MS Office allows to handle this differently. > > With Microsoft WebDAV redirector (same one available on Vista) > > - Nothing works at all. I've tried almost all I could to try to use it > to map a network drive on the webdav folder.. The constraints are > pretty hard on the web dav server and even though I was not able to > have it fully working. I find it a dead end. > > On Windows Vista: > > - Nothing works at all > > It seems possible to install a Web Folders package on Vista and have > the behavior of XP. > > In any case, the Microsoft solution is sub-optimal on Windows. Novell > NetDrive (free download findable on the web) or WebDrive (it's > commercial counterpart) seem to be much more efficient. > Maybe MSOffice works correctly with WebFolders but this needs to be > tested. > > On Mac the behavior is pretty nice with the patched version of > OpenOffice (patch is published there: > http://tools.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81536 let's hope > they put it in the standard distrib). > > Ludovic > > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
