Ubuntu – Best way to connect to Webdav on Sharepoint with NTLM Authentication Ubuntu 12.10

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I am currently trying to connect to a private Sharepoint workspace (on our intranet) using Webdav that uses NTLM using davfs2. However I am failing due to this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/davfs2/+bug/1091183 (No NTLM support in davfs2).

Does anyone have any alternative suggestions for connecting – I would be as happy with a two-way syncing solution as with a FUSE solution.

Best Answer

I faced the same issue.

So I rebuilt the package from source. I struggled to find a way to rebuild davfs2 with libneon27 instead of libneon27-gnutls. This question is closed (I think incorrectly). So I had to figure it out (not very complicated anyway)

  1. Install libneon with proper OpenSSL sudo apt-get install libneon27 libneon27-dev
  2. Remove existing davfs2 if you already have it sudo apt-get remove davfs2
  3. Download davfs2 from source. I used version 1.5.2
  4. Untar the file you just downloaded (something like tar -xzvf davfs2-1.5.2.tar.gz will work)
  5. Change to the directory and launch ./configure
  6. Build with make
  7. Install with sudo make install

Once you've built davfs with the proper binding, you can use davfs to mount a folder with something like (you may need to be root)

mount.davfs <url> <folder> -o ro

You'll be asked for credentials unless you configure your secret files. See more information at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man8/mount.davfs.8.html

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