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?