topic Re: Mounting a Webfolder (webdav) in Operating System - HP-UX

Mounting a Webfolder (webdav)

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:53:39 GMT

Dear experts!

is it possible to mount a Webfolder on HP-UX?

for instance, i have a webfolder also accessible as: http:\\yogeeraj.myserver.mu\sites\webfolder\

and i want to mount it on /mnt/webfolder

thank you in advance for your insights.

regards
yogeeraj

Re: Mounting a Webfolder (webdav)

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:27:55 GMT

If this across the Internet I think it pretty unlikely.

Most servers with exposure to the Internet block the Samba ports, if that is even what webfolder uses. This is because a lot of works go out and try samba mounts creating sometimes millions of log files in the samba log area.

I've had it fill up the /var sysem on my servers.

Windows has gotten around these issues by using ftp, which is usually open on most webhosting servers. The obvious problem there is your password going back and forth in clear text.

If its a samba share and the port is open on the firewall cifsclient or cifslogin or smbmount(linux) might do the trick.

Almost nobody allows NFS on public servers any more.

SEP

Re: Mounting a Webfolder (webdav)

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:41:17 GMT

hi SEP,

thank you for your reply.

Fortunately, the webfolder is within my Intranet and is running on a Windows 2003 server.

unfortunately, i can only access the folder using HTTP (in fact, the folder resides inside a database).

regards
yogeeraj

Re: Mounting a Webfolder (webdav)

Yogeeraj_1 — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:29:21 GMT

hi again,

cadaver (http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/) seems to be solution to my query.

Anybody with cadaver experience?

kind regards
yogeeraj