MacOS X 10.x will allow you to connect to Slide or any WebDAV
enabled site via the "Connect to Server" diaglog.
This HOWTO will walk you through connecting to a Slide share from
MacOS X.
First, click the GO menu from the Finder, then select
the Connect to Server option:
A new window should appear. In the Address field enter
the hostname, optionally the port, and the path to the slide context:
Finally, you'll need to authenticate yourself to the Slide server.
The default username and password for administrative access is
root/root
. Note, on MacOS 10.2 and latter if you
use Basic authentication, the WebDAV filesystem will display the
following alert
![](images/WebDAVFSSecNot.jpg)
After selecting Continue, you will be prompted
for the username and password.
![](images/WebDAVFSAuth.jpg)
If you cannot authenticate, there's an issue with the default
web.xml
file that comes with Slide version 1.0.16.
In that file, there is an auth constraint
for three
roles:
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>root</role-name>
<role-name>guest</role-name>
<role-name>user</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
The user
role is not defined by default in
the TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml
file.
After you successfully authenticate yourself to the Slide server,
a new window should appear:
![](images/MountedVolume.jpg)
The WebDAVFS will allow you to treat this volume like a locally
mounted hard drive. Applications and services will interact with
the Slide share without any changes.