Hello, i've a Problem with Windows 7 (and 8, at least the public Release-Preview) and DAV:
The DAV-contrib works as described in
http://wiki.contribs.org/DAV#Accessing_a_DAV_enabled_ibay with Windows XP, Linux, NetBSD, OSX etc. But it doesn't work with Windows 7, because of a bug that's already a known issue to Microsoft (see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2560598). They don't seem to view this as important, since the same bug exists in Windows 8 (till now). The workaround they suggest is not an option for my clients (the trouble with the network-drives and security-warnings, not remembering credentials and warning at startup, etc. is to much, they can't handle it. Also: it is incredible slow and instable). So i tried to put an ibay with DAV enabled as content into the Primary ibay (by means of server-manager, the Domain-section), which solves part of the Problem: Now Windows 7 can do as described in the DAV-contrib howto. But the shares i want my clients to access are done with the SharedFolders-contrib (
http://wiki.contribs.org/SharedFolders) because i want per user rights and ssl/https encrypted password transfer. If i simply connect an ibay to be the contents of Primary with the server-manager, i have the ibay-name and password as auth, and at least no https as default-option. Also: if i enable DAV for that ibay (that's to workaround the Windows-bug), my users can modify it, and i don't want that.
So it comes down to this question: can i connect a SharedFolder (done with the contrib) as content of Primary?
Or: does anybody know a better solution, e.g. somehow enabling DAV for Primary but with write-access for nobody?
Hopefully that was understandable, sry for the bad english.
s.