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Mounting a Webdav File System (view source)
Revision as of 17:36, 21 January 2022
, 17:36, 21 January 2022→Dolphin: add screenshot
Quite often we will give a researcher access to a web experiment by giving a webdav enabled url, a username and password. This page describes how to use this url. In the remainder of this page we will assume that you were given the url https://exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php, the username u123456 and the password PASSWORD.
Quite often we will give a researcher access to some resource by giving a webdav enabled url, a username and password. This page describes how to use this url. In the remainder of this page we will assume that you were given the url https://exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php, the username u123456 and the password PASSWORD.
The resource can be anything. It can be simply a folder for shared data, or it can be a web experiment accessible via another (non webdav) url.
= Webbrowser =
= Webbrowser =
To use the url in a webbrowser, just open the page and type username and password in the popup dialog. This will give you a limited number of features (upload file, make directory, ...)
To use the url in a webbrowser, just open the url and type username and password in the popup dialog.
The page show is a SabreDav web page that will give you a limited number of features (create new folder, upload file, ...).
[[File:Browser sabre dav.png|thumb|Using Sabre Webdav in your browser.]]
[[File:Browser sabre dav.png|thumb|Using Sabre Webdav in your browser.]]
= Linux =
= Linux =
In Linux (and other POSIX compliant operating systems) you can connect a local directory (~/experiment in this example) to the Webdav resource:
In Linux (and other POSIX compliant operating systems) you can connect a local directory (~/experiment in this example) to the Webdav resource (replace USER with your username):
sudo apt install davfs2 # make sure to allow non root users (setuid root)
sudo apt install davfs2 # no need to allow non root users (setuid root)
mkdir ~/experiment
mkdir ~/experiment
mount.davfs https://exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php ~/experiment -o rw
sudo mount.davfs https://exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php ~/experiment -o rw,uid=USER,gid=USER
If you want to mount this resource each time you boot your computer, put the following in /etc/fstab (replacing USER with your username)
= Nautilus =
https://exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php /home/USER/experiment davfs _netdev,noauto,user,uid=USER,gid=USER 0 0
and put the password in /etc/davfs2/secrets using:
/home/USER/experiment u123456 PASSWORD
== Nautilus ==
Type ctrl-L to open the address bar. Type the address: davs://u123456@exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php. A popup will appear for the password.
Type ctrl-L to open the address bar. Type the address: davs://u123456@exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php. A popup will appear for the password.
= Dolphin =
== Dolphin ==
[[File:Dolphinwebdav.png.png|thumb|none|Dolphin mounting a Webdav filesystem]]
Click the address bar. Type the address: webdavs://u123456@exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php. A popup will appear for the password.
Click the address bar. Type the address: webdavs://u123456@exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php. A popup will appear for the password.
= Cyberduck =
= Microsoft Windows =
[[File:Map windows webdav.png|thumb|none|Mapping a network drive in Microsoft Windows]]
One can use the Microsoft Windows '''Map Network Drive''' feature to assign a drive letter. No special Windows program is needed to do this. It is an operating system feature. Note that there are quite a few [https://sabre.io/dav/clients/windows/ issues]. If you use Microsoft Windows it is usually a better idea to use an external program for accessing a webdav drive. Among other things, if the mount is not in the root directory of the server (http://example.com/mydir) but at a deeper level (http://example.com/superdir/mydir) using the microsoft operating system feature will probably not work.
== Cyberduck ==
If you use Microsoft windows, Cyberduck is the most popular way to mount a webdav resource. See the image for how to enter information about the mount.
[[File:Mount webdav cyberduck.png|thumb|none|Mounting a webdav filesystem in cyberduck]]
== KS<sup>2</sup> drive ==
If you want data to be synchronized automatically you can use
[https://github.com/FrKaram/KS2.Drive KS<sup>2</sup> drive]. It is the same program that Utrecht university calls Yoda drive and for which the Donders Institute has an
[https://data.donders.ru.nl/doc/help/user-manual/transfer-data/YodaDrive.html?3 intranet page]. It integrates nicely with the classical MS-DOS system with drive letters.
[[File:Ks2.png|thumb|none|KS<sup>2</sup> configure]]
If you do not have administrative privileges on your computer, please install the ''portable'' version of the software. Just unzip it somewhere convenient.
= Microsoft Windows =
After installing the software configure your webdav drive as shown in the image. After this you can use the taskbar icon for viewing the log and mounting the drive:
[[File:Ks2 mount.png|frame|none|KS<sup>2</sup> taskbar menu]]
[[File:Map windows webdav.png|thumb|Mapping a network drive in Microsoft Windows]]
= Mac OSX =
Use the finder "Connect to Server" option (cmd-k) to mount to the webdav file folder. For the server address use: https://exp.socsci.ru.nl/experiment/webdav.php and replace "experiment" with the name of your experiment folder. Press the connect button and login as a registered user with your u-number or s-number. If you want to use OSX finder please ask TSG to enable file locking, otherwise resouces will be mounted read only.
[[File:Finder connecttoserver login.jpg|thumb|none|Mapping a network drive in OSX using Finder]]
Alternatively Cyberduck (see Windows) also works for OSX.
== References ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SabreDAV