Fedora WebDav FileServer with Windows-Clients

[gimli]

Hello,

i have installed an apache WebDav Filesserver with Apache 2.0... on Fedora Core 4. Everything works fine, if the Clients are Linux. I used the client "cadaver" and everything works fine. (authtype is Digest).

But when i go to a Windows XP Client, and try to use the WebDav Share as a Network Ressource it doesn`t work. The reason is, that windows puts the hostname of the server in front of the username. So if am on Windows Xp Client and try tho connect the WebDav Share, i enter the username "mmread" and the password .... and then i get the fallowing error message in the apache error log:

[Tue Feb 14 09:14:11 2006] [error] [client 10.28.100.211] Digest: user `darwinmmwrite' in realm `mmclient' not found: /mmclient

so windows puts always the server name in front of the username, and so the authentication always failed!!!

what can i do?
can i do something on the server side, but normally i must change somethin on the client side or?
when windows send the MD5 sum to the server, is there only the password inside oder password and username??
if both is inside i must change it on all clients or?

thanks for your help

[gimli]

i used etherreal and i see that only the password is in the MD5 Sum.

and winows sends this to the server:
Authorization: Digest username: "darwin\mmclient"

so the apache takes the "\" out of the username.
but how can i say apache clear also everything in front ob the "\"??

thanks

[pparks1]

Try to connect to your webdav share with a :80 at the end of the URL.

MS updated the WebDav client with XP to include NTLM authentication, even though the RFC says that it should just be "USERNAME".

Using :80 in the address is supposed to invoke the old version which doesn't append the hostname\ in front of the user name.


I also noticed in my shop that you can try to connect to
http://share/dav_share and then hit cancel when it tries to connect the 1st time
Immediately reconnect again and then put in your username and password and it works

For whatever reason, it doesn't default to NTLM style authentication after the cancel. However, to me this method appears that something is broken....so I prefer http://share:80/dav_share

[gimli]

http://share:80/dav_share doesnt work, windows says "the share is not correct, please choose another one"

stupid windows!

does the example from work on your hosts?

thanks

[gimli]

the problem should be solved with authorization through windows PDC.

with the following apache modul

http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/

bye thanks

[pparks1]

Thanks for the post.

My example does work on my hosts and it's what I have been using. I've only got a few people using WebDAV so it doesn't cause me much of a problem, but I will check out the link you provided.