Peter:

Perfect, exactly what I needed to know. That only leaves security on the web server as the culprit as to why things are not linking properly via WebDAV.

When using "View in Windows Explorer" and the challenge appears; is it asking for DNN security credentials?

Thanx

Laverne

Hi Peter,

Okay, this definitely changes things.  After prohibiting WebDAV in the Web Server Extensions, I now seem to have the problem described by Laverne.  I am now getting the Windows challenge for an account and password.  Once I enter a domain password that allows access to the location of the physical drive, Word opens and retrieves the file.  However, the file is still set to Read-Only.  I checked the properties on the server to ensure that the files are not set to read only.  Now, when I attempt to save the document, after prompting for a username and password, the application actually does attempt to save the document.  However, I have to rename it (due to the read-only status) and I get the following message: "There has been a network or file permission error".  I'm guessing this is a permission error rather than a network problem since I can successfully retrieve and view the contents of the file over the network.

Anyway, turning off WebDAV in IIS did alter the nature of this problem.  For the moment, I'm going to focus on permissions and assume that the DMX WebDAV is working correctly.  Please let me know If you have any thoughts about what might be causing the permissions errors.

Thanks.

Scott

Hi Peter,

YES!  This worked.  After 'prohibiting' WebDAV in the Web Server Extensions, and logging in, everything worked correctly!  Word starts without an authentication challenge, the content is retrieved, and I can save back to the site.  The promise of WebDAV is realized and my users will be happy.

As an intranet site, we don't require logins for all users.  About 85% of the information on the site is open for everyone.  Rather than requiring logins for everyone, we only require users having special permissions to login.  As such, only about 1200 users are actually registered on the site. 

• Is it possible to configure DMX so that the "Open in ..." option is only visible when the user is actually logged into the site and has the appropriate permission?  To avoid confusion, if the option isn't applicable, I'd rather that users without the appropriate permission don't see this option.

Peter, thanks for perservering through this issue with me.  I realize that you are extremely busy with a new release and responding to other customers while living several time zones away.  Thanks again.

Scott

Peter / Scott:

We are now working as advertising.

The funny thing is I was making the same suggestions about the Item menu under the UI section, then came here only to find Scott was doing the same.

Thanx for all the help.

Laverne

Hi everybody.

After a few attempts I finally succedeed in having Word automatically starting up with the document to be edited.

Still, when I hit the save button i get a dialog with the following message "word did not save the document". Sniffing the HTTP traffic I found the following trace:

Request:

    PUT /dmxdav.axd/fattura%20pap%C3%A0.doc HTTP/1.1\r\n
        Request Method: PUT
        Request URI: /dmxdav.axd/fattura%20pap%C3%A0.doc
        Request Version: HTTP/1.1
    Content-Language: en-us\r\n
    Accept-Language: en-us\r\n
    If: ()\r\n
    Translate: f\r\n
    Content-Length: 29696
    User-Agent: Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV\r\n
    Host: portal.proplast.it\r\n
    Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n
    Cookie: .ASPXANONYMOUS=Ok_kpz82yAEkAAAAMjY1YThmNDUtYTI0OC00YTJhLTgwMGUtMTExZWYzYzliNzQw0; _Module351_Visible=false; _Module352_Visible=false; _Module346_Visible=false; _Module347_Visible=false; dmxdavcookie=1863D8E56CC3E4F1DCA9A3B8AF00E419

Reply from server:

    HTTP/1.1 500 Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.\r\n
        Request Version: HTTP/1.1
        Response Code: 500
    Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:25:01 GMT\r\n
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0\r\n
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET\r\n
    X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727\r\n
    Content-Length: 0
    Cache-Control: private\r\n
    Content-Type: text/html\r\n

Request:

    PROPFIND /dmxdav.axd HTTP/1.1\r\n
        Request Method: PROPFIND
        Request URI: /dmxdav.axd
        Request Version: HTTP/1.1
    Content-Language: en-us\r\n
    Accept-Language: en-us\r\n
    Content-Type: text/xml\r\n
    Translate: f\r\n
    Depth: 1\r\n
    Content-Length: 489
    User-Agent: Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV\r\n
    Host: portal.proplast.it\r\n
    Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n
    Cookie: .ASPXANONYMOUS=Ok_kpz82yAEkAAAAMjY1YThmNDUtYTI0OC00YTJhLTgwMGUtMTExZWYzYzliNzQw0; _Module351_Visible=false; _Module352_Visible=false; _Module346_Visible=false; _Module347_Visible=false; dmxdavcookie=1863D8E56CC3E4F1DCA9A3B8AF00E419
    \r\n
eXtensible Markup Language
            version="1.0"
        encoding="UTF-8"
        ?>
            xmlns:a="DAV:"
        xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes">
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
        

Reply:

    HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status\r\n
        Request Version: HTTP/1.1
        Response Code: 207
    Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:25:03 GMT\r\n
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0\r\n
    X-Powered-By: ASP.NET\r\n
    X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727\r\n
    Content-Length: 1538
    Cache-Control: private\r\n
    Content-Type: text/xml\r\n
    \r\n
eXtensible Markup Language
            version="1.0"
        encoding="utf-8"
        ?>
            xmlns:d="DAV:">
        
            
                http://portal.xxx.it/dmxdav.axd/
                
            
                
                    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
                    
                
                    
                    
                        2007-09-27T19:52:23Z
                        
                    
                        Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:52:23 GMT
                        
                    
                    
                        dmxdav.axd
                        
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
            
                
                    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
                    
                
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                
            
        
            
                http://portal.xxx.xx/dmxd...tura%20pap%c3%a0.doc
                
            
                
                    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
                    
                
                    
                        application/msword
                        
                    
                        2007-09-27T19:52:23Z
                        
                    
                        Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:52:23 GMT
                        
                    
                        29184
                        
                    
                        fattura pap\303\240.doc
                        
                    
                    
                
            
                
                    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
                    
                
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                
            
        

Any thought on what is going wrong?

Thank you

Andrea 

Peter,

actually WebDav in subfolders works perfectly!!!

Is this a 'by design' behaviour (WebDav not working in root folder) or am I missing some settings in my installation?

The root folder is only 'writable' for Admins and is not the best place to start your document management. I urge everyone to start subfolders first to start proper permission setting etc. There are other issues with the root folder that have to do with the Windows WebDAV client. Check out this post:

http://www.bring2mind.net...w/topic/Default.aspx

In all, best practice is to use subfolders.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but does WebDAV need to be installed on the server?  or did I read that DMX handled it on it's own?

I'm having the issue when opening documents where they are in read only mode and can't be saved to the server.

Thanks