MHR wrote:

On Jan 17, 2008 9:33 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:

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I have installed fuse-davfs2-1.2.2-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

but mount -t davfs http://URL /mnt/dav

gets

/sbin/mount.davfs: group davfs2 does not exist

what did I miss in the install???

Not really sure - the message says that "group davfs2 does not exist."

• could that be the problem?

What is meant by this message? Do I need to create a group of davfs2 (what command?)?

And mount -a -t davfs did not make a difference....

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

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What is meant by this message? Do I need to create a group of davfs2 (what command?)?

And mount -a -t davfs did not make a difference....

RTFM. It's all explained in the mount.davfs manual page.

I HAVE been RTFMMT. And tried it and have missed something in my reading. Maybe it's my dyslexia.

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Everything under "Security Policy". The need for a davfs2 system user and system group are explained there.

And yes, the package is broken, because it should add the user.

OK. I figured out I needed the user and group davfs2. I created them using the Gnome tools.

Then I try:

mount -t davfs http://dav.mentor.ieee.org:80/ /mnt/ieee

And get:

Please enter the username to authenticate with server http://dav.mentor.ieee.org:80/ or hit enter for none. Username:

Now I can access this URI no problem with cadaver, I just enter open http://dav.mentor.ieee.org:80/ and I am in. So I just hit enter and get:

/sbin/mount.davfs: mounting failed; the server does not support WebDAV

Obviously cadaver works. If it preserved file dates and supplied a sync/mirror function, I would not be playing with mount.davfs.

Any additional ideas?