I'm having no luck giving clients WebDAV access to subdirectories of
the web directory using WebDAV. Things I've determined include:

1. All clients with a realm pointing to the web subdir (everyone
browse only; client browse/read/write) can connect using OS X's
Connect to Server (using the WebDAV address, their username and pwd)
and then can copy, delete and update.

2. All clients with a realm etc. *cannot* connect via Dreamweaver site
remote tab with WebDAV selected (using exact same address, username
and pwd as for 1 above). Well, this is more complicated in that
sometimes I do seem to be able to confirm a WebDAV connection in
remote pane and even see and download remote files, but I can't upload
an updated file.

3. I can connect with several clients using GoLive's Connect to Server
module and WebDAV protocol, although clients can freely move up out of
their subdirs and roam around the entire web dir, including into other
subdirs, which they cannot do using SFTP or OS X Connect to Server.
I'm about the only one left using GoLive at the establishments where
these issues are arising, so that's not much help and poses a security
problem anyway.

We are using SFTP in the interim to enable clients to continue editing
their web content, but would like to move away from that eventually.

I have an OS X consultant trying to help me and so far we cannot rule
out the possibility that this is a Dreamweaver issue. It's entirely
possible it's a combination of OS X Leopard and DW, or not DW at all,
but we just can't seem to figure out what else could be the cause.
This is especially bizarre since we're having this problem on two
separate Leopard servers, and one of them was set up by a Apple-
Certified Server technician, so one would hope he knew what he was
doing.

So, if anyone knows of Dreamweaver-related WebDAV problems re OS X
that sound similar to mine, please let me know what if anything you
were able to do to resolve this.

Marcus Duke
UW Aquatic & Fishery Sciences and
Washington Sea Grant


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