User profile for user: Mark Vogel
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Connecting to a Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 via WebDav

My company has a Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 server which you should be able to mount as a webdav server. In fact, when I launch Parallels, I can successfully mount the server in My Network Places under Windows XP.

When I try and mount the server through the Mac Finder through GO Connect to Server... I am asked to authenticate myself and the server is successfully mounted. However, I can not see any of the folders or files on the server nor can I write to the server.

I then downloaded Goliath which is a Mac open source Webdav client and with Goliath I can't even get authenticated. I then used Transmit which is also a secure (https) webdav client. I can't get authenticated. I get the message "access denied" even though I am using the same login details that I used in Windows where this worked.

My guess is that this has something to do with authentication protocols. Any one have any ideas?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Dec 1, 2007 8:41 AM

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User profile for user: tangomax
tangomax
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Dec 14, 2007 6:33 AM in response to Mark Vogel

Here's a clue, unfortunately it's not that helpful.
I'm having the same problem. I created a folder in the sharepoint site without a space in its name. I mounted that folder and everything is slick. This doesn't help much because our company uses a template that has a folder named 'Shared Documents'.

I was clued in to this by the page:
http://macbookprohints.blogspot.com/2006/05/connecting-to-webdav-folders-windows .html
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User profile for user: Duke N
Duke N
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Dec 17, 2007 9:22 PM in response to Mark Vogel

I ran into this problem trying to put together a suite of utilities for mac people to use sharepoint more effectively (server side mods if they're on a mac that let them export calendars to iCal, and so on).

Anyhow, I made an Automator workflow to grab the current page that you're on, and try to mount it as a document library (strip out the extraneous /forms/whatever.aspx and connect to it in Finder). It works that far to mount it, but then copying things to it in finder is broken.

In my case, it's spitting something back about unsupported characters or an invalid file name.

Anyhow, copying to the mount through the command line (terminal or whatever with a simple 'cp') works fine. It's just when you try to drag and drop in Finder that there is an issue.

Maybe someone else knows a little more about what Finder does that's different than cp to really zero in on this problem.
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User profile for user: GCISAdmin
GCISAdmin
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Apr 3, 2008 3:05 PM in response to Mark Vogel

I have found that Leopard resolves the issue with folders/files not showing through a WebDAV connection. It seemed to be only folders or files with spaces in their name that didn't show and that works just fine in Leopard.

However, I am still getting the "file name is too long or contains invalid characters" error every time any of my Tiger or Leopard users attempt to copy/paste files to our SharePoint 2007 Document Library through a WebDAV connection.

I will be trying other WebDAV client software and will update you if I find a solution. If any of you discovered how to make WebDAV connections behave without the file name too long error, please let me know.
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