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BlueMagician
Oct 10, 2011Aspirant
WebDAV in W7? Digest Authentication? Other options?
Dear all, Looking for some help with being able to access my Ultra2 shares using SSL WebDAV in Windows. A little bit of investigation on the matter suggests that Windows7 will only authenticat...
sphardy1
Oct 10, 2011Apprentice
Ajaxplorer sits on top of your NAS setup. You can configure it to access any data on your NAS - mirroring your share setup if you prefer, or creating some alternative setup entirely.
I just looked at WebDAV support and found that you will need to manually configure a share for HTTP access to enable this feature, requiring you to enable root SSH access to your NAS. This is not needed for a standard Ajaxplorer installation, but for WebDAV there are some settings needed that Frontview does not give access to. If you are uncomfortable with command line linux, then this may not be an appropriate option for you.
(Specifically you need to enable the use of .htaccess files which are used by the Ajaxplorer WebDAV option)
I just looked at WebDAV support and found that you will need to manually configure a share for HTTP access to enable this feature, requiring you to enable root SSH access to your NAS. This is not needed for a standard Ajaxplorer installation, but for WebDAV there are some settings needed that Frontview does not give access to. If you are uncomfortable with command line linux, then this may not be an appropriate option for you.
(Specifically you need to enable the use of .htaccess files which are used by the Ajaxplorer WebDAV option)
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