Fix for invisible WebDav volumes

Jun 28, '02 08:51:19AM

Contributed by: DelVach

My company deals in part with WebDAV, the technology used to mount iDisk volumes. Although iDisk seems to work fine, I run into problems when attempting to mount our document repository. Using the 'Connect to Server' dialog I enter:

http://host.hostname.com:8080/webdav
I'm prompted for my username and password, and then nothing happens. If I start a terminal session, I can see the webdav volume in my /Volumes folder, and can mv, cp, etc., and generally interract with it with no problems. However, the disk does not appear on the desktop or in any Finder windows. It's worth noting that very rarely, the volume does just mount and displays properly

On a whim, I did a force-restart of the Finder, after which the volume was visible and fully usable in Aqua.

I'm curious as to others' experience with WebDAV, as I know one of the other (few) Mac guys here has run into similar problems.

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