I don't know for sure but it isn't IE per se.  I think that the WebDAV
Client is only through the Web Folders, even though you browse the web
folders with IE.

Michael Oliver
CTO/Matrix Intermedia
7391 S. Bullrider Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85747
Office (520)574-1150
Cell (518)378-6154


Christophe Lombart said:
> Micheal,
>
> Sorry for my late respond. I took the train to go at home ;-)
> Anyway, it seems that it is working. What about accessing some office
> files from internet explorer ?
> for me, it is on read-only.
>
> Following the webdav site, ie 5+ should support webdav but how ?
>
> Christophe
>
> Michael Oliver wrote:
>
>> Bingo!  We have a winner!  Thanks Christophe for the hint.  I will put
>> this into the Wiki
>>
>> You still need to set the path to Domain.xml explicitely in a
>> slide.properties file.  I located mine in Tomcat's .\common\classes
>> and used forward slashes in the path instead of escaped backslashes.
>>
>> I also put the Domain.xml there instead of .\webapps\slide, however
>> that may not be necessary since we aren't useing SlideRealm.
>>
>> If you do put Domain.xml someplace else and refer to it in
>> slide.properties, make sure you don't have it also in webapps/slide,
>> some classes apparently look there first as I found it wasnt' working
>> until I removed/renamed .\webapps\slide\Domain.xml
>>
>> Uncommenting the <security-constraint> element in both
>> slide\WEB-INF\web.xml and slide-admin\WEB-INF\web.xml is the same as
>> when using the SlideRealm.
>>
>> Caveats at least in my trial and error approach.  I set the users,
>> roles and groups in Tomcat to mirror those in Domain.xml  but I am not
>> sure that is entirely necessary to have all users, roles and groups
>> defined in both places...I did and it works, so it isn't a definitive
>> statement that it is needed.
>>
>> Michael Oliver
>> CTO/Matrix Intermedia
>> 7391 S. Bullrider Ave.
>> Tucson, AZ 85747
>> Office (520)574-1150
>> Cell (518)378-6154
>>
>> >
>> > add your user info in the tomcat user db
>> > modify your web.xml in order to activate the security contrains.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Michael Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 5:32 PM
>> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Subject: RE: Ms Office
>> >
>> >
>> > Ok, that's even better, I too would rather use the Tomcat default
>> realm.
>> >  So, what did you do to get that working?
>> >
>> > I started a Wiki page for that option at:
>> > http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?DefaultTomcatRealm
>> >
>> >
>> > Michael Oliver
>> > CTO/Matrix Intermedia
>> > 7391 S. Bullrider Ave.
>> > Tucson, AZ 85747
>> > Office (520)574-1150
>> > Cell (518)378-6154
>> >
>> >
>> >> This is not the Slide realm, this is the default Tomcat config
>> realm
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Michael Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:04 PM
>> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Subject: RE: Ms Office
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Oh you are teasing me again with the "works fine via a webfolders",
>> could you please have a look at the wiki
>> >> http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?SlideRealm and edit it
>> where we have missed something?
>> >>
>> >> Michael Oliver
>> >> CTO/Matrix Intermedia
>> >> 7391 S. Bullrider Ave.
>> >> Tucson, AZ 85747
>> >> Office (520)574-1150
>> >> Cell (518)378-6154
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> ok but it works fine via a webfolders.
>> >>> The read-only issue occur only if I open my word document via
>> internet explorer.
>> >>> As suggest Micheal, maybe the internet explorer is not a webdav
>> client ?
>> >>>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: James Higginbotham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:53 PM
>> >>> To: Slide Users Mailing List
>> >>> Subject: RE: Ms Office
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Just a hunch here, but an older email from Dr. Nevermann (who
>> implemented DeltaV for Slide) talks about locking wrt Office..
>> This may be why it is read-only, or it could be just simple
>> permissions that Office sets up on the doc so others can't write
>> except the author.. Anyway, here is the snippet:
>> >>>
>> >>> The auto-version value "locked-checkout" is ideal for the
>> Microsoft Office tools (Word, etc.). When a file is opened from a
>> WebFolder, Word LOCKs the resource. While the file is open, Word
>> refreshes the LOCK from time to time. When the file is saved the
>> first time, the PUT is
>> >>> automatically preceeded by a CHECKOUT. Further saves keep the file
>> locked and checked-out. When the file is closed, Word issues an
>> UNLOCK which automatically is preceeded by a CHECKIN operation.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> HTH,
>> >>> James
>> >>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:12 AM
>> >>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>>> Subject: Ms Office
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi All,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I'm using slide 1.16 on a window XP machine. Everything is
>> >>>> good when I update my Msoffice documents from a webfolder but my
>> ms offices document are on read-only when I access them
>> >>>> from internet explorer (6.0). I'm correclty connected to the
>> webapps via  the tomcat realm.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Do you know why thoses documents are on read-only via
>> >>>> internet explorer ?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Regards,
>> >>>> Christophe
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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