Hi First of all let me thank you for this good work which seems to help a lot of people. I am a philosophy professor and moderately computer literate. I want to create a webdav folder mainly with the purpose of syncing with my zotero collection (a lot of pdfs.) Webdav capability of Mangoose was such an unique and valuable point of selling for me that I purchased pro version without hesitation. I would like to see more discussions about the Webdav issues. In mailing list I found only a few posts related to Webdav.
I consulted all docs available in your site. I wanted to do my home work properly before asking questions. Unfortunately after 4 days of playing with Mangoose* I failed* to make it work as a simple Webdav. I need apparently some help. I hope that my questions once clarified, will help other people similar to my profile to set up up a Webdav. I am even willing to write a complete newby guide with pictures etc once I can get it work for myself. I presume that only a newby can understand newby problems :) *My initial setup:* Server (Fresh install fully updated) is on win 7 pro 64 Bit and client on Win 8.1 64 bit. Machines on local network with home sharing on. Static IP pointing to cable modem with a domain attached to it. Static internal IP assigned to server and ports 80 and 443 routed in modem. Port triggering on. Modem and computers firewalls off and ms security essentials on. All connections Wifi. Tests are made with win pro-version of Mangoose. What is the best practices for: ? *Server related questions* 1- What is the best platform to start with? My server machine is a win 7 pro 64 Bit. But if it is advised to switch to another OS no prob. What about 64 bit? 1.1- What is the practical difference for me to get it work as a win service? 1.1.1- Who should be the win service user? 1.2- Best firewall configuration (I started to play with mangoose with firewall off.) Besides ports 80, 8080 and 443 and Mangoose itself do I need to authorise other things? 1.3- Would Mangoose function better on 8080? 1.4- What is the difference between choosing my domain as localhost or as somedomain.com. (I have a static IP for my server and a domain name pointing to it) 1.5- I need only a Webdav acces and each time I am manually getting rid of index entry in preferences and then refresh to get files displayed. Mangoose keeps to fill index entry to each restart. Do I missing something? 1.6- I created a .passwrd file with success (with my domain name). I named it .passwrd and it functions correctly on server side. Can I name it differently? 1.7- Use mangoose with administrative rights or not? (I start it always with administrative rights) 1.8- What about win permissions? 1.9- I experimented with port 80 in so far as. Besides usual security concerns, is using port 80, a problem for connecting dav clients? 1.10- Is there best locations for Webdav folders. Mine was on desktop. 1.11- Some config fields mentioned in reference doc are not shown in my setup. Only 1 is marked unix-only. More than 1 unix only-fields? 1.12- Is it sensible to foreign language characters in folder and file names? (I limited myself to english in so far. Turkish French and English mixedly in file names) 1.13- Is there file number limitations or folder nesting limits? 1.14- How many concurrent clients? 1.15- Known incompatibilies with anti-virus or other apps? *In so far I succeded to make webdav clients display remote file list after login auth. But update or upload does not work.* *Client related questions* 2- Is there known issues with getting dav clients work on win 8? 2.1- What is the best client app? I tried it with netdrive, carotdrive and official win client. 2.2- I never succeed to upload files (create a folder works) in dav clients. Usually zero bytes transfers are made and empty files are created with correct names. 2.3- Is Mangoose really fully Webdav compliant or is it only for read only Webdavs? 2.4- Is there a fully working upload capable Webdav setup exemple? With a downloadable folder with all essentials in? *Other issues* I am well aware that my issues can be related to my network or router setup too. But I can make for example barracudadrive work as a webdav server with his own browser interface on my client. I can mount onedrive as webdav which only shows that my client is webdav capable. I wanted to be more informed on Mangoose side before troubleshooting on my network setup. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mongoose-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
