[AuckLUG] questions - best PC setup

[Michal Ludvig]

Guy K. Kloss wrote:

> this is not 100% true. Regarding file sharing, today I would rather go and use 
> WebDAV (Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) shares than Samba 
> shares.

(Resisting to enter a flamewar on "Is WebDav ment to replace regular
file sharing protocols" topic... :-)

> WebDAV is a protocol extension of the HTTP protocol and thus easily 
> to manage and secure even through firewalls, proxyable (is there such a 
> word?) to other LANs, etc. In the Wintendo world this is known as "Microsoft 
> Web Folders", and they work pretty neatly under various operating systems, 
> even without those tedious Samba broadcasts, etc.

What do you use to mount WebDAV shares in Linux? I tried davfs several
times in the past and it never quite worked for me. The server side was
set up fine (Apache, mod_webdav (?), ssl), at least to the extent that
Windoze could access it.

I checked their website a few minutes ago and it seems they now use FUSE
instead of their own kernel VFS implementation which is promising. Have
you got a recent experience with davfs/davfs2? Does it work with SSL?
Does it survive disconneting from the net (for instance taking a laptop
on the go w/o unmounting the share)?

Michal