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If anyone knows of a free tool that lets you move multiple files easily, I'd love to hear about it. There are free tools for OS X, but I haven't seen it for Windows.
Charles Hedrick - Mar. 17, 2007
I've had to give up on DAV with Vista. The Windows redirector has a history of not working well. In XP there is an alternate implementation of DAV, as part of "network places." Unfortunately they removed that from Vista, so there's no alternative to the buggy Windows redirector.
The obvious problem is that it wanted to do propfind on /dav and /dav/ user. However I fixed things to return a dummy result for that, but it still doesn't work. The dummy returns work, because it does propfind for the real URL. But it still fails. I get one of two results, seemingly at random:
- the exchange is perfectly reasonable, but the client gives up and starts over
- the client doesn't send anything at all
For most URLs the client doesn't send anything at all. There's no possible way to fix that on the server, obviously. In order get even this far I have to make a registry change so it will do basic authentication, and I have to modify the server to handle their non- standard user names (domain\user).
We're not the only ones reporting problems. Many DAV-enabled systems that used the Network Places client in XP as a workaround for the buggy redirector don't work with Vista. Their support people know they have a problem, but I don't think they know how bad it is. I got a response saying that my report had been noted, but suggesting that more bug reports are probably necessary in order to get anything to happen.
We're recommending to our Vista users that they try 3rd party tools. I like Independent DAV, though others may have preferred tools. Independent Dav is fast and has a nice user interface. It depends upon the .NET framework, but that's always present in Vista. For XP you may have to load it. If so, they give you instructions.