Can't copy folders to webdav server in Tiger, but can in Win XP

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Can't copy folders to webdav server in Tiger, but can in Win XP

My machine is G5 iMac running Tiger 10.4.3

I can't copy a folder with files from my machine to a remote webdav-enabled server, but I CAN copy files and folders from my windows XP machine.

Since it works fine with Windows, I assume our server is setup okay and this is an issue with OS X 10.4...

We have a remote server (OS X Server 10.3.9) with webdav-enabled share folders on two virtually hosted websites.

On the server the shared folder's owner and group are www with r/w permission; everybody = none.

On the server I have an account in a Realm for a website's share folder giving me (and only me) author and browse.

Using Finder I can connect, authenticate, copy individual files, and copy empty folders to the webdav folder.

But if I try to copy a folder containing anything from my machine to the server I get the error that
"The operation cannot be competed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items."

Help! I really need to administer my remote websites on my Apple server, and would kind of prefer to do it from my Mac, not my Windows machine!

G5 IMac, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 22, 2005 10:22 PM

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Answer 1

Tim Haigh

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Nov 23, 2005 1:04 PM in response to JPW

Connecting to web-dav and ftp servers in the Finder are read only this is not a bug it is that read/write access is not a feature of osx at the moment.

Until then use a client such as fugu to connect to webdav servers.

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JPWSPO

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Nov 23, 2005 1:50 PM in response to Tim Haigh

I don't think that's correct.

I can copy a file or two or three, or an empty folder, just NOT a folder with files in it. So it's not read only, it's just not smart enough to allow a folder with files in it. File and folders but not file swithin folders still smells like a bug to me.

I'm hoping there's a finder workaround, but I will also try that client you mentioned. I got Transmit to work, but that's a little bit cumbersome, so hopefully fugu will do the trick. Thank you for pointing me to that client. when I went to versiontracker before my post and searched webdav client it missed fugu somehow. But your link worked fine.

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Answer 3

Tim Haigh

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Nov 23, 2005 3:31 PM in response to JPWSPO

I don't think that's correct.

last week someone also had the same problem. They posted the login and server address and we tested it in the finder and it was read only. So maybe there is a setting in the webdav server that needs configuring for read write access.

I also use transmit that works fine. Fugu is freeware.

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