Davenport WebDAV-CIFS (SMB) Gateway / News: Recent posts

Version 0.9.11 of the Davenport WebDAV-CIFS (SMB) Gateway has been released. This updates various bundled components, and also provides support for GZIP/Deflate compression.

Davenport is a servlet-based WebDAV gateway to a CIFS network. This allows you to access Windows/Samba shares using any web browser. WebDAV clients (such as Windows Web Folders) can upload and download from the shares as if they were local folders.

Version 0.9.9

SUMMARY OF CHANGES:

Fixed session storage of non-serializable objects.
Added support for URL rewriting based on a context base.
Added per-server authentication caching.
Disabled closing of HTTP connection upon request for authentication.
Added support for pluggable error handlers.
Added support for pluggable logging.
Added ability to specify anonymous credentials.
Added file filter framework.
Updated bundled jCIFS to version 0.9.2.

Version 0.9.8 has been released. This fixes a bug introduced in 0.9.7, which is observed against Gnome Nautilus and Windows 2000 clients.

Version 0.9.7 has been released. This includes a couple of bugfixes involving WebDAV properties and share browsing, as well as enhanced localization support.

This application provides WebDAV-based access to an entire SMB network, which enables users to connect to Windows and Samba shares throughout the enterprise via WebDAV clients.

Workgroups are browseable, and users are authenticated against a Windows domain. Non-WebDAV clients (i.e., "normal" web browsers) can also access the network of shares and download files.... read more

Version 0.9.6 has been released. This fixes minor date formatting issues, and provides enhancements supporting interoperability with Windows 2003 servers.

This application provides WebDAV-based access to an entire SMB network, which enables users to connect to Windows and Samba shares throughout the enterprise via WebDAV clients.

Workgroups are browseable, and users are authenticated against a Windows domain. Non-WebDAV clients (i.e., "normal" web browsers) can also access the network of shares and download files.... read more

Version 0.9.5 has been released. This fixes several issues affecting interoperability with various WebDAV clients, and introduces support for LMv2 authentication.

This application provides WebDAV-based access to an entire SMB network, which enables users to connect to Windows and Samba shares throughout the enterprise via WebDAV clients.

Workgroups are browseable, and users are authenticated against a Windows domain. Non-WebDAV clients (i.e., "normal" web browsers) can also access the network of shares and download files. ... read more

Version 0.9.0 has been released; this fixes several bugs involving inter-workgroup browsing and non-ASCII characters in URLs.

This application provides WebDAV-based access to an entire SMB network, which enables users to connect to Windows and Samba shares throughout the enterprise via WebDAV clients.

Workgroups are browseable, and users are authenticated against a Windows domain. Non-WebDAV clients (i.e., "normal" web browsers) can also access the network of shares and download files.... read more

Davenport WebDAV-CIFS (SMB) Gateway version 0.8.0 (beta)

This is the initial release of the Davenport WebDAV-CIFS Gateway servlet. This application provides WebDAV-based access to an entire SMB network, which enables users to connect to Windows and Samba shares via WebDAV clients.

Workgroups are browseable, and users are authenticated against a Windows domain. Non-WebDAV clients (i.e., "normal" web browsers) can also access the network of shares and download files.... read more