About WebDAV
Web Distributed Creative and Version Management (WebDAV) extends the HTTP / 1.1 protocol, allows clients to publish, locked and manage resources on the web. After integrated with IIS, the WebDAV allows the client to do the following:
Process the resources in the WebDAv publishing directory on the server. For example, using this feature, users with correct permissions can copy and move files in the webDAV directory. Modify the properties associated with certain resources. For example, the user can write and retrieve the attribute information of the file. Lock and unlock the resources so that multiple users can read a file at the same time. But each time there can be only one to modify the file. Search the contents and properties of the files in the webdav directory.
Setting the WebDAV publishing directory on the server as simple as the virtual directory is set by the Internet Information Service Management unit. After setting the publishing directory, users with appropriate permissions can publish documents to the server and process files in the directory. You must first install Windows XP Professional before setting up a WebDAV directory.
WebDAV client
The WebDAV publishing directory can be accessed by any of the Microsoft products described in the following list or by other arbitrary supporting industry standard WebDAV protocols.
Windows XP is connected to the WebDAV server via "Add Online Neighbor Wizard" and displays content in the webdav directory, as it is an integral part of the same file system on the local computer. After the connection is complete, you can drag and drop file, retrieve, and modify file properties, and perform many other file system tasks. Internet Explorer 5.0 Connects to a WebDAV directory allows you to perform file system tasks that can be performed by Windows XP. Office 2000 is created, published, edited in any of the applications included, and saves documents to the WebDAV directory.
Search in WebDAV
Once a connection is established with the WebDAV directory, you can quickly search for the contents and properties of the files in this directory. For example, you can search all files containing the word Table or all files written by Fred.
Integrated security
Since WebDAV has been integrated with Windows XP and IIS, it has the security features provided by both. These include the IIS permissions specified in the Internet Information Services management unit and the free selection access control list (DACL) in the NTFS file system. For information on IIS security, see security.
Since the client with appropriate permissions can write a write operation on the WebDAV directory, it is important to control which client access directories is always important. To help you control access, IIS has built-in support for the Kerberos 5 authentication protocol, enhancing the functionality of integrating Windows authentication. Select Integrated Windows Authentication, you can ensure that only accessible clients can access the WebDAV directory on the intranet and write it on it. For more information about how the Kerberos 5 authentication protocol is integrated with IIS Integration Windows authentication collaboration, see Integrating Windows Authentication. For overall information about the Working principle of the Kerberos protocol, see "Kerberos V5 Authentication" in the Windows XP document.
In addition, IIS also supports a summary authentication and advanced abstract authentication. Summary Authentication and Advanced Summary Authentication For the Windows Domain Server, providing more stringent security measures for passwords and through Internet Transport information. For information on abstract authentication, see Summary Authentication and Configuration Summary Authentication. For information on advanced abstract authentication, see Advanced Summary Authentication and Configuring Advanced Summary Authentication.
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