WebDAV is a standard collaborative editing and file management protocol. Teaming relies on the WebDAV protocol to accomplish two key features:
Edit-in-Place of files using tools such as OpenOffice and Microsoft Office, as described in Using WebDAV to Edit Individual Files
in the Kablink Teaming 3 Advanced User Guide.
Map Teaming folders as a Web folder on the client computer, which allows access to Teaming files from a WebDAV-compliant file navigation tool such as Windows Explorer or Nautilus, as described in Creating a Mapped Drive to the Teaming Folder
in the Kablink Teaming 3 Advanced User Guide.
IMPORTANT:Because of WebDAV limitations in Windows 7, when Teaming users are running Windows 7 as the client operating system, various issues can be introduced. If your Teaming users are using the Windows 7 operating system, see Configuring Teaming to Support WebDAV on Windows 7
in the Novell Teaming 3 Administration Guide.
The WebDAV authentication method determines how user credentials are passed from Teaming to the WebDAV server. Teaming 3 and later supports three types of WebDAV authentication methods:
Basic authentication uses a one-way encryption algorithm known as asymmetric encryption. Select this type of authentication in any of the following situations:
When you plan to use Novell Access Manager (NAM) or Internet Information Services (IIS) to authenticate users
Digest authentication uses a reversible two-way encryption algorithm known as symmetric encryption. Select this type of authentication in any of the following situations:
When client users are using Windows 7 as their operating system and Microsoft Office as their text editor
NOTE:Selecting this option requires user passwords to be stored in the Teaming database using a reversible two-way encryption algorithm known as symmetric encryption. For more information about selecting an algorithm, see Section 3.6.5, Database Encryption Algorithm.