The WebDav Service

• Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers.
  • The WebDAV protocol makes the Web a readable and writable medium. It provides a framework for users to create, change and move documents on a server; typically a web server or web share.

HOWTO use WebDav

• WebDav can be used under windows, linux or MAC

Windows

• If we only want to access in read mode, we can use any web browser and point the url to pool01.ifca.es, but to enable the read/write mode, we need to mount the network device under Windows.

  1. Select Computer

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  2. Map Network Drive

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  3. Within the Map Network Drive dialog, enter your WebDAV address: http://your_site_url/resources (where your_site_url is pool01.ifca.es).

  4. Click the two check boxes at the bottom.

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  5. Click Finish
  6. Enter yourA Ldap user name and password.

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