Jason Stuart @ CWRU

DAV for Linux users

I use WebDrive for getting files to my Filer and to the directories I have access to. Yet I run Ubuntu and Damn Small Linux on my desktop, and just nuked my last remaining connection to Win98 so I could try out different window managers (Linux-ese for "things we pretend are cool but seem to exist only for people to make themes, and, oh, transparent tabs"). Today I thought I'd get better at Bluefish so I'm all "right no problem I'll just hook it up on Nautilus because Nautilus does everything through its elfin magic." But no. No elfin magic for J.

So I went to the usual places for WebDrive support, which seems located exclusively at the WebDev blog, and there's nothing I found for Linux DAV stuff. Nothing on forums.case either, but I have a low tolerance for forum's search results.

So apparently Ubuntu is bad at DAV. Really it just came down to a new line on /etc/fstab:

Open up yr package manager. Get davfs2 (which I guess would be [sudo apt-get davfs2 etc at console - but just use synaptic]). I believe you will also have to have neon's libraries installed; can't remember if that's automatic.
Configure davfs2: [sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2]
At the prompt to mount as ordinary user, answer yes.
You'll be prompted for a group name. Provide a group name (default is "davfs2" I believe).
Then it'll ask you for a user name, if you want non-root access. Nobody uses my computer, so I said yes. This is up to you.
The pop-up will then provide you with a line to add to /etc/fstab. You might ignore this; I, computer genius that I am, actually tried to ctrl-c it. Whatever the case, you'll put it in to fstab later.

Create a folder for your mount point; I used /mnt/ [sudo mkdir /mnt/whatever]

Open /etc/fstab in preferred editor. Geeky: [sudo nano /etc/fstab] Non-masochistic: [sudo gedit /etc/fstab] We're all adults here. Let's admit that we don't use gvim and emacs for everything, hmmm?

So, anyway. Add this line to fstab, using the syntax:
[https://www.case.edu:8000/caseID/foldername /mnt/whatever davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0] for mounting directory files if you administer a website.
Do [https://filer.case.edu/dav/caseID] as the file system if you want to get to your filer.

Save and close fstab. At your console, mount the file this way:
[sudo mount filesystem], where filesystem=the URL you added to fstab
Console will prompt for username and pass. Then you should go back to Nautilus and see your new directory mounted in the filesystem. Worked for me at least.