Basically, what I'm looking for is Samba - except that I want it to be WebDAV in the front. The requirements are that the users can log in to the WebDAV dir with their system account, and files will have their user and group set accordingly. I know there's sambadav, but frustratingly, it seems to not be possible to get write functionality with it under FreeBSD.

I would like to mount a bitrix24 network drive. The drive seems to be accessible via webDAV using a URL that looks like the following: https://b24-XXXXXX.bitrix24.de/company/personal/user/1/disk/path/ with XXXXXX as a random ASCII string. While my final aim would be to mount the drive automatically via fstab, I worked out the following command for initial attempts:

sudo mount -t davfs https://b24-XXXXXX.bitrix24.de/company/personal/user/1/disk/path/ 

After initiating the command the following procedure with the corresponding error message is triggered:

Please enter the username to authenticate with server
https://b24-XXXXXX.bitrix24.de/company/personal/user/1/disk/path/  or hit enter for none.
  Username: username@domain.tld
Please enter the password to authenticate user andreas@weinzierl.it with server
https://b24-XXXXXX.bitrix24.de/company/personal/user/1/disk/path/  or hit enter for none.
  Password:
/sbin/mount.davfs: Mounting failed.
Could not authenticate to server: legacy Digest challenge not supported

Sadly, it isn't really apparent how I could fix this problem from the client side. I would like to note that adding the same drive with the same credentials in Windows Explorer works fine, which means that in theory mounting should be possible. DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS" (via WSL 2)

I've setup an nginx/webdav instance. I can connect to it just fine. (If it matters, it uses https:// and auth_pam.) In a web browser (chrome shown), I see everything I expect to see: (I tested using curl as well, identical results -- all files/dirs shown.) But when I connect using another client (so far I've tested cadaver, macos Finder, and macos' mount_webdav), I only see a subset:

-bash
$ cadaver --tolerant https://myhost.com/webdav/ 
...
dav:/webdav/? ls
Listing collection `/webdav/': succeeded.
Coll:   #recycle                               0  Nov 16 00:00
Coll:   summary                                0  Oct 29 14:11
        fixperms.sh                        26936  Apr  8  2024
dav:/webdav/?

What's interesting is that if I ignore the fact that I don't _see_ ./data/, I can still read files within it (programmatically or in a terminal/shell). For instance, if ./data/somefile existed on the server, then even though data is not shown in the file listing, I can cat data/somefile and get its contents without issue. I can find no correlation between owner, group, or perms for files that are shown/not-shown, though the behavior is consistent between clients and reconnections. The server is running on nginx-1.18.0 (ubuntu 22.04) with both --with-http_dav_module (compiled into nginx) and the additional libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext (ubuntu package) module. The nginx conf:

location /webdav {
        root /path/subpath ;
        rewrite ^/webdav/(.*)$ /$1 break;

        dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
        dav_ext_methods PROPFIND OPTIONS;
        dav_access user:rw group:rw all:rw;

        client_max_body_size 0;
        create_full_put_path on;
        client_body_temp_path /tmp/webdav-temp ;

        auth_pam "Restricted";
        auth_pam_service_name "common-auth";

        autoindex on;
    }

FYI, cadaver --tolerant is to work around some complaints in cadaver since I'm requesting /webdav even though webdav is not actually part of the remote filesystem/path ... notice the nginx rewrite rule. I cannot have the top-level / as the webdav root and I have other top-level dirs being served, ergo the rewrite. FWIW, I'm doing this to get a better remote-filesystem connection from macos to a remote network. sshfs is the best I have atm, and its support on macos is years behind the main branch with no expectation of catching up, and quite a bit slower than (say) sshfs on linux. I need read-write access at some point, have not tested yet with this webdav setup. (Note: originally asked on superuser, since deleted. I think it's more on-topic here.)

I'm looking to completely decommission my SMBA service and replace it with a WebDav service. All the google searches so far have pointed me to using Apache / Webdav. This is close to what I need but as far as I read it requires Apache to have access to my user's files and worse; if it creates a file the new file will be owned by Apache (not the user). ***Note that having files with the correct Unix ownership and permissions is a requirement as some users have direct SSH access.*** So I'm quite simply looking for a way to either make Apache / Webdav work "correctly" with multi-users (that is ***change unix user to the logged in user before attempting to serve the file***) or find a complete alternative to Apache / Webdav. So far searches haven't turned anything up.

Fish can't cd into a folder on a Webdav remote directory through Rclone:

Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
drive ) ls
Documents/  Music/           Videos/
Gem/        Misc/            Pictures/
drive ) cd Documents
cd: The directory “Documents” does not exist
drive ) sh
$ cd Documents
$ pwd
/mnt/drive/Documents
$ exit
drive )

Perhaps because it uses a wrapper around cd, maybe it is a bug, or instead I have to disable or rename the cd function, not sure how to address it.

I am using Apache on server, with WebDAV. On client Linux, I have davfs2 mounted folder. When I try to access small file, everything works fine. When I try to access image file size of 2Gb, I am getting Input/output error. My guess is that there is some limitation on Apache/WebDAV side. In httpd.conf I have LogLevel debug, but still logs doesn't show much about this error. Question is: how to enable WebDAV detailed logs and what are default size limitations in WebDAV for upload and download?

I have mounted a webdav directory with davfs2 via: sudo mount -t davfs -o uid=bruni,gid=users https://server/folder /home/bruni/mountpoint/ How can I force a sync via command line without unmounting the directory? The client is running KUbuntu 19.10, the server is an egroupware server but this is most probably irrelevant. mount.davfs -V davfs2 1.5.5 To clarify what I mean by synchronize, I mean what umount.davfs, does before unmounting to verify that all changes have been uploaded to the server: /sbin/umount.davfs: waiting while mount.davfs (pid xxxxx) synchronizes the cache .. OK

I am mounting a webdav share using davfs2. The same folder is mounted on two different virtual machines running Debian stable using davfs2. All options are identical (use locks 0 is set on both). The first machine works smoothly. On the second machine I can view the share and I can also create and edit very small files. For example

$ touch test
$ echo '123' > test

will create the file. Anything bigger (larger than 14 kilobyte) fails to upload. Looking through the syslog I can see that davfs does a PUT request but then I get

Aborted request (-2): Could not read status line
Request ends, status 0 class 0xx, error line:#012Could not read status line: connection timed out

I do not have access to the webdav server but it is an owncloud version 10.0.10 installation. I get the same behavior when using rclone instead of davfs2, so the problem is not specific to davfs2

I have a Linux server (Ubuntu 16.04) where I would like to mount an external "storage box" where to periodically backup several terabyte of server's data (both high and low-frequency changing), possibly keeping track of user's attributes (owner/group/permissions). The provider of these storage box offers the following protocols: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, Samba/CIFS, HTTPS, WebDAV Which backup tool should I consider? If you suggest rsync, as I would have first to mount the data locally, which protocol should I prefer for the mounting ? Would it be possible to backup user's attributes (i.e. mapping users between server and host ) ?

I'm looking for some software that would provide features like Dropbox. Will a simple webdav be enough for this use case?

(I am using Linux Mint) I have set up a WebDav mounted drive to my Google Drive account. My question is: does a mounted drive take up local disk space, or is it like a virtual drive? Thanks.

I need to backup data which are accessible over webdav. Is threre a way to connect to it witout mounting it as an drive? My preferable way to do it would be an script I can run as cronjob to automatically backup the data.

NCP Webdav functionality was verified from an Ubuntu device. From the OSX command line terminal: mount_webdav -i https://fqdn.duckdns.org/remote.php/webdav/ /Users/user/ncp points to a nextcloudPi server and did not return anything (except a prompt for the username + password). Test 1: ls /Users/user/ncp returned nothing. Test 2: mount | grep Users/user/ncp returned nothing. Questions: 1. Where to begin troubleshooting? 2. What does success look like upon issuing the mount_webdav command? 3. Should test 2 be expected to return anything? Any diagnostic test questions are appreciated.

On my main server, I use ZFS as a file system. So far I send incremental zfs snapshots to a backup machine which also has zfs available as a file system. Unfortunately, the backup server has a headcrash, so I would like to move the backup system to a cloud drive which I can access via webdav/ftps. How can I send incremental snapshots to/from such a backup drive? Can I somehow create a zpool which stores its data via webdav or ftps? Thanks a lot for your ideas!

I'm trying to mount a webdav on my debian distribution, but I have an error when I try to do so. The error is : ~# mount /mnt/dav >/sbin/mount.davfs: can't evaluate path of mount point (null) Last line of the fstab file (/etc/fstab) : https://website.fr/remote.php/dav/files/jeffez/ /mnt/dav davfs _netdev,auto,user,uid=jeffez,gid=jeffez 0 0 Last lines of the davfs2 secret file (I changed the password) # personal webdav, nextcloud application password /mnt/dav jeffez Pg9z8-XFGbX-iug6R-k90D5-gK8kL # older versions used URL, it is equivalent for compatibility reasons #https://nextcloud.example.com/remote.php/webdav/ milosz mypassword I used [this tutorial](https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2017/09/04/how-to-mount-webdav-share/) . I'm connected with the administrator account.

I was able to install davfs2 and I can even mount the SharePoint document library using it but when I try to do anything on the mount I get an error. I can mount the document library: root@host:/# mount -t davfs "http://sharepoint/Shared Documents" /mnt/sp Please enter the username to authenticate with server http://sp/Site Stuff or hit enter for none. Username: username Please enter the password to authenticate user nacho with server http://sp/Site Stuff or hit enter for none. Password: I can CD to it and I can see it mounted since there: root@host:/# cd /mnt/sp root@host:/mnt/sp# ls Forms lost+found home.html But when I try to create a file or do anything I get an error: root@host:/mnt/sp# touch a touch: setting times of ‘a’: No such file or directory root@host:/mnt/sp# date > hi.txt bash: hi.txt: Invalid argument Anyone have any ideas what's wrong?

I want to access to my files stored in my Synology NAS using WebDAV. I enabled the WebDAV server on the NAS and I can establish a working connection in the CLI using cadaver. However, I want to be able to browse my files using Nautilus. I use Archlinux. Usually, to access a distant server, I go to the “Other locations” page and select the one I want:  For WebDAV, I have two choices: * “alta-plana (dav+sd)” for WebDAV through HTTP, * “alta-plana (davs+sd)” for WebDAV through HTTPS. “alta-plana” is the name of my NAS. When I click on the lines, I always get an error (the same for the two lines): **Impossible to access location** Error resolving _webdav._tcp service "alta-plana" on domain "local". One or more TXT records are missing. Keys required: "u". Using the text field at the bottom of the window, I get different behaviours: * dav://alta-plana seems to do nothing except refreshing the window, * davs://alta-plana shows a Gnome Shell dialog box to ask me to accept or not the synology.com certificate and clicking “Yes” or “No” does absolutely nothing (not even refreshing the window). All information I could find about using WebDAV with Nautilus mention the now deleted dialog to connect distant servers so it is impossible to follow what it is said. Besides, I do not understand what exactly is missing. So, is there a way to access my files stored on my NAS through WebDAV with Nautilus 3.18 or, alternatively, will it be possible with the 3.20 version that came out today?

I need to copy approximately 400 files of approximately 25 MB each to a davfs-mounted cloud storage. I have tried the following commands to limit the CPU-load and IO-load: nice -n 15 ionice -c 3 rsync -avhW --no-compress --progress /src/ /dst/ My destination folder dst is a davfs-mounted cloud storage. Whenever I transfer a single file, the rsync just takes a few seconds -- at least it shows up to be this fast: sending incremental file list xxx 26.70M 100% 15.75MB/s 0:00:01 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 26.70M bytes received 31 bytes 7.63M bytes/sec total size is 26.70M speedup is 1.00 I don't see any rsync or nice process running, but the system reacts very slowly, as the data transfer is still running in the background. There is only one davfs process for the mounted cloud storage. After a few minutes, my system is responsive again and the file transfer is finished. netstat shows an active connection to the cloud storage. How can I limit the bandwidth to the davfs-mounted cloud storage to prevent my system from slowing down?

I have Box.com successfully mounted with davfs2 (webdav) to a local location. Now I am trying to trigger actions on files created and synced in the Webdav folder. Unfortunately this is not working. I see no inotify events when files are synced to the local Webdav folder. It does pick-up any local file transactions though, so I am pretty confident inotify is working properly. Anyone else using Webdav (davfs2) and inotify?

I was provided with a WebDAV storage server, that I want to mount on a productive Ubuntu 16.04 server using davfs2. The storage server is connected to using a DNS name; its actual IP might change due to load balancing, failover or maintenance reasons. I want the mount to be as stable and available as possible without any manual intervention needed. The DNS record has a TTL of a few seconds set. Will davfs2 honor the TTL and connect to another IP if the DNS entry is changed? Do you have any other proposal on how to get this as stable as possible? [Edit] This question is about the **specific** behavior of davfs2, and should imho be therefore not considered a duplicate of the question related to cifs mentioned by 2 users.