Using Apple's WebDavFS for Mac OS X with WebDAV on IIS 7

Today's blog post needs to have a disclaimer right up front - I freely admit I'm not a Mac OS X expert, so I may not have everything 100% correct in this post. But I've seen a lot of questions on forums.iis.net that discuss using IIS WebDAV with Mac OS X, so I thought that I'd share a few of the things that I've noticed. Just the same, if I were writing a formal walkthrough I would have said something like, "Microsoft is not responsible for the behavior of Apple's Mac family of products. The information that is provided in this topic is provided to assist Mac OS X users connect to IIS using WebDAV."

All that being said, here are the prerequisites for getting your environment together:

  • Your server needs to be running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows 7.
  • Your server needs to have Internet Information Services 7 and the WebDAV module installed. (Note: See the Installing and Configuring WebDAV on IIS 7.0 topic for more information.)
  • For best results, your Mac client needs to be running OS X version 10.4 or later.

Connecting to a WebDAV server using Mac OS X

  • In Mac OS X, open Finder.
  • Choose Go, then Connect To Server.
  • Enter the URL of the WebDAV server in Server Address. For example:
    http://www.example.com/path/
  • Click Connect.

For more information, please see the following help topics that are available on Apple's Web site:

Troubleshooting WebDAV connections using Mac OS X

These are some of the issues that I've seen:

In Closing...

I have to reiterate that I'm not a Mac OS X expert, so this list is probably not all-inclusive, but it's helped to resolve some of the issues that I've seen.

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