UNC access to an tomcat webdav server

[Arno Schäfer <Ar...@sqs.com>]

I have configured a tomcat (7.0.54) webdav server and try to access via a windows UNC path.
If I run WebDAV in an IIS environment I can access this server automaticly from all clients
via an UNC path like '\\webserver[@port]\webdav\' if the server side mapping is
'https://webserver[:port]/webdav'. For this I have done nothing. (Windows >= version 7)

So it is possible to use this dynamicly in every client website, where I need it. What is to do
to get this also on the tomcat server? Is it done with some kind of server configuration or is
it a client side action.

Til now I mapped the webdav address to a windows drive letter, but this I want to avoid.

Any hints are welcome :-)

Thanks
Arno
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AW: UNC access to an tomcat webdav server

[Arno Schäfer <Ar...@sqs.com>]

> In the "any hints" category :
> - in Windows (disk) Explorer, go to "Netzwerkumgebung"
> - select "Netzwerkumgebung hinzufügen"
> - click "Weiter" (2 X)
> - in "Internet- oder Netzwerkadresse", enter your "https://webserver:port/webdav"
>    and click "Weiter". Depending on how you set this up in your webserver, you may have to login.
> When you are done, you should have a new link under "Netzwerkumgebung", without a drive letter. Under that link, > what appears is the content of the webserver's DAV directories. 
> You can then drag/drop files to/from there, using Windows Explorer.

Yes, thank you very much, that is exactly what I looked and searched for. In the properties of the link I see also the
resulting UNC path. I have never recognized this content in the context menu of the 'computer'. It seem s also not
possible to get this result with the 'net use' command.

Best regards
Arno

Re: UNC access to an tomcat webdav server

["André Warnier (tomcat)" <aw...@ice-sa.com>]

On 08.12.2016 14:31, Arno Sch�fer wrote:
> I have configured a tomcat (7.0.54) webdav server and try to access via a windows UNC path.
> If I run WebDAV in an IIS environment I can access this server automaticly from all clients
> via an UNC path like '\\webserver[@port]\webdav\' if the server side mapping is
> 'https://webserver[:port]/webdav'. For this I have done nothing. (Windows >= version 7)
>
> So it is possible to use this dynamicly in every client website, where I need it. What is to do
> to get this also on the tomcat server? Is it done with some kind of server configuration or is
> it a client side action.
>
> Til now I mapped the webdav address to a windows drive letter, but this I want to avoid.
>
(and you should not need to do that)

> Any hints are welcome :-)
>

In the "any hints" category :
- in Windows (disk) Explorer, go to "Netzwerkumgebung"
- select "Netzwerkumgebung hinzuf�gen"
- click "Weiter" (2 X)
- in "Internet- oder Netzwerkadresse", enter your "https://webserver:port/webdav"
   and click "Weiter". Depending on how you set this up in your webserver, you may have to 
login.

When you are done, you should have a new link under "Netzwerkumgebung", without a drive 
letter. Under that link, what appears is the content of the webserver's DAV directories. 
You can then drag/drop files to/from there, using Windows Explorer.

Is that what you mean by your (relatively obscure) question ?

(Web)DAV is a HTTP "sub-protocol" (or "extension").  Any accesses to a DAV resource are 
via HTTP commands.
Possibly, Windows and IIS allows you to also access an IIS-based DAV server, via a UNC 
kind of address, and make the translation automatically. But that would then be 
Windows-specific.

Note: the Windows client-side implementation of DAV is full of non-standard 
particularities and caveats.  Do not be surprised if you encounter some issues with this, 
and search Google and/or the Tomcat list archives for more information.


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