I also had trouble finding an external client that worked consistently for one of my customers. We finally settled on CyberDuck for Mac and BitKinex for windows (they also use Dreamweaver successfully).
-Robert On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Tako Schotanus <t...@codejive.org> wrote: > I don't know if the WebDAV support in Vista has improved any, but I doubt > it: try editing a file directly from the network drive, it probably won't > work. > > This means that each time you edit something you first have to copy it > locally, change it and upload it again. Not very useful if you do a lot of > editing. > > The NetDrive product (http://www.netdrive.net/) does allow you to do that > and works perfectly on several of the public WebDAV sites that it comes > configured with out of the box. It just doesn't work with Sling. > > I also tried jEdit because it supposedly had built-in WebDAV support, but > it > seems it doesn't anymore unfortunately. > > Cheers, > -Tako > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 18:25, Simon Gaeremynck <gaeremyn...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I've just tried creating a network drive in Explorer (Windows XP) and it > > seems to work. > > Note: this isn't a very serious test since I just uploaded a picture and > > was able to download it again > > and look at it in the browser. > > > > Apparently Vista does WebDAV the same as XP but Windows 7 has a different > > implementation. > > I can't get my hands on a windows 7 box right now unfortunately. > > > > Simon > > > > > > On 30 Jun 2010, at 17:07, Tako Schotanus wrote: > > > > > I just tried NetDrive myself for Windows, but somehow it doesn't play > > nice > > > with the Sling/Jackrabbit WebDAV implementation. All files and folders > > are > > > prepended with the site's URL somehow, like this: > > > > > > /mysite.org/somefolder > > > /mysite.org/index.html > > > /mysite.org/styles.css > > > > > > I'm not talking about folder structure here, these are the actual NAMES > > of > > > the files, slashes included. Of course Windows is not able to make > heads > > or > > > tails of these files and fails to open them. > > > > > > *sigh* > > > > > > Found an application that does work correctly, BitKinex, but it's more > > like > > > old-fashioned FTP clients. That's okay but it makes working with files > > > needlessly complicated IMHO. > > > > > > -Tako > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 17:46, Simon Gaeremynck <gaeremyn...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > >> The same can be said for OS X. > > >> Finder (built-in file manager) is able to play nicely with WebDAV. > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> Simon > > >> > > >> > > >> On 30 Jun 2010, at 15:58, Markus Blaurock wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> can only answer for Linux: > > >>> > > >>> nautilus (standard GNOME-File-Manager) is able to speak WebDAV. > > >>> > > >>> Just connect to the server and use it like any other file-system. > > >>> > > >>> regards, > > >>> markus > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Am 30.06.2010 16:04, schrieb Tako Schotanus: > > >>>> Hi, > > >>>> > > >>>> asking the people who probably use WebDAV clients all the time: any > > >>>> suggestions for a good WebDAV client? (both Windows and Linux apply) > > >>>> > > >>>> I'm downloading and trying clients myself of course, but not knowing > > yet > > >>>> what to expect I also don't know yet what to look for. > > >>>> > > >>>> Cheers, > > >>>> -Tako > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > > > >
