I want to mount a webDAV remote on my ubuntu 22.04 system. Precisely, this is on a private storage service and is accessible through either
i) my credetials at the link https://pandora.infn.it/ws-my-files/test-webDAV-mount
ii) a public link without passwords: https://pandora.infn.it/public/13359c
I tried following this guide , taking some hints from other sources. The exact steps I did are the following:
- Install webdav
sudo apt-get install davfs2, ensuring to enable non-root mounts.
- Edit
/etc/fstab (I tested both the above links):
$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
# append lines:
https://pandora.infn.it/public/13359c /home/luca/pandora_public davfs ro,user,noauto 0 0
https://pandora.infn.it/ws-my-files/test-webDAV-mount /home/luca/pandora_credentials davfs ro,user,noauto 0 0
- Add my user to davfs2 group as suggested here:
sudo usermod -aG davfs2 luca
su -l luca
If I check, my user correctly shows davfs2 among its groups:
$ groups
luca adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin lxd sambashare davfs2 docker
At this point, I should be able to run $ mount pandora_public or $ mount pandora_credentials, but in either case I am prompted for credentials and get /sbin/mount.davfs: mounting failed; the server does not support WebDAV.
So I also edited /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf appending ignore_dav_header 1 as suggested here.
Finally, if I re-try it seems both commands ($ mount pandora_public or $ mount pandora_credentials) work and indeed I have a mounted directory. However, mount points only contain a lost+found empty folder.
I suspect it must be something with the authentication since I get the same results even if I use deliberately wrong username and password, however I don't get any error message nor warning. Any help would be much appreciated :D
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