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Friday 30th July 2010

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Connecting to WebDAV with davfs2

Some time ago I wrote about using fusedav to connect to a webdav server. For some reason I could only read from the server. Writing always resulted in an error.

Today I used davfs2 for the first time and writing is working like a charm. Configuration is a little bit of work however. First I installed davfs2 via apt-get, then I ran dpkg-reconfigure to make davfs2 run suid as root. The last step involved an entry in /etc/fstab and creating a directory in /media. Also make sure you are a member of the davfs2 group.

sudo apt-get install davfs2
sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2

add the following to /etc/fstab (as root)

https://homedrive.nl/ /media/homedrive davfs rw,noauto,user 0 0

and make mount point and mount the webdav service

sudo mkdir /media/homedrive
mount /media/homedrive

Also see the README on the davfs2 homepage

Comments

So can you tell me, how can I

So can you tell me, how can I become a member of davfs2 group?

I guess you could check out

I guess you could check out http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2

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