OS X WebDAV & Windows XP Problems?

[legacyb4]

Saw the post on discussions.info.apple.com and was wondering if other people can confirm (I tested with a new XP client and had problems getting authenticated as well).

As the title says, XP clients seem to have connectivity issues getting through to an OS X Server WebDAV share…

Hoping this is something that’s just a setting issue!

[legacyb4]

Log entries:

(connecting from a Mac)

user [05/Feb/2003:22:26:53 +0900] “OPTIONS /public/WebDAV/ HTTP/1.1” 401 483

(connecting from a Windows 2000 machine)

user [05/Feb/2003:22:33:41 +0900] “PROPFIND /public/WebDAV/ HTTP/1.1” 401 483

(connecting from an XP machine)

http://www.domain.com\user [05/Feb/2003:22:26:26 +0900] “PROPFIND /WebDAV HTTP/1.1” 401 483

[Admin]

I haven’t tried it, but I wouldn’t be surprised given that XP caused SMB problems (which Apple fixed in 10.2.x). Can you try setting up WebDAV on, e.g., a Linux machine and see if there are similar problems?

[legacyb4]

Unfortunately, all my hardware is tied up right now…

However, strange thing is that I can connect to iDisk from the XP client.

Guess I’ll put a call into Apple Support to find out what’s going on.

Cheers.

[quote:6fc4faf907=”Atropos”]I haven’t tried it, but I wouldn’t be surprised given that XP caused SMB problems (which Apple fixed in 10.2.x). Can you try setting up WebDAV on, e.g., a Linux machine and see if there are similar problems?[/quote:6fc4faf907]

[Anonymous]

I was having trouble getting my XP clients to connect to my Panther Server DAV folder. The solution I found was to add a “#” sign to the end of the DAV path. Apparently there is a bug in Win XP which causes XP to think it is connecting to an SMB share and not a DAV folder. The “#” sign forces XP into connecting to a DAV folder. Voila, problem solved!

As an example, when connecting in XP us the following as your path:

http://www.example.com/davdocs/#

[Anonymous]

Thanks! This solved the problem for me.

[Author]

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