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Accessing WebDAV Folders on Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the interoperation-GOOOD! dept.

Saqib Ali asks: "I was wondering if any Slashdot readers are accessing WebDAV folders on their Linux box. I heavily use DAV folders to store files and documents. On a Windows machine, I can easily access them using WebFolder or native DAV support in MS Office Suite. But when I switch to my Linux box, I have a hard time accessing the files on the DAV folders. I haven't seen any application on Linux that support DAV natively. OpenOffice/StartOffice don't support DAV either. I know there is nautilus which uses gnome-vfs to access files on DAV, but that doesn't help if the apps don't support DAV themselves. Are there Linux app that support DAV natively? How about integerating gnome-vfs into OpenOffice? Any ideas?" For those who just want access to the files, and don't mind the extra steps, you can use utilities like Cadaver but probably, what many of you might be looking for is a simple file system driver. What are you usin to access your DAV resources?

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  1. Re:Uhm by akeru · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you use Gnome, Nautilus has been able to do this for ages, you must simply change the View to "View as Icons" or "View as List" rather than "View as Webpage" and it will work.

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    Let's hope that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth.

  2. Nautilus does WebDAV by jdub! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nautilus is awesome for WebDAV and Apple's iDisk (which is just WebDAV anyway). Copy, preview, change, all in your file manager.

    Yum!