Enabling WebDAV Access for a NVSD Repository / Updating the WebDAV credentials (4044349)

WebDAV account has not been configured on the NVSD instance.

The WebDAV user/pass being provided while adding the NVSD Repository to vRanger do not match the WebDAV credentials that are currently configured on the SmartDisk server itself.

If you want to enable authentication for WebDAV access of NVSD for the data port, complete the following steps to specify the credentials. (NVSD uses digestaccess authentication, specifically RFC 2069.) You can also use this same procedure to update existing credentials.

1. Open a command prompt.
2. Type one of the following:
   …\foundation\bin\smartdisk.bat config
   
   NVSD displays the list of options and parameters that you can use, including the section for configuring authentication:
3. To define the credentials, type the following:
   …\foundation\bin\smartdisk.bat config --update --webdav <port#> --credentials
   Replace <port#> with the port that you are using.
4. When the Username prompt appears, enter the user name that should be used for access, and press Enter.
5. When the Password prompt appears, enter the password associated with the specified user name, press Enter, enter the password again when the Confirm Password prompt appears, and press Enter again.
   
   NVSD displays results similar to the following example:
   
   smartdisk.bat config --update --webdav 37453 --credentials
   Username: NVSDuser
   Password:
   Confirm Password:
   Configuration applied

• In vRanger, configure for the NVSD repository with the same WebDAV credentials.

Note: For the user name in the WebDAV credentials, NVSD currently supports the use of any ASCII characters except the quotation mark ("), comma (,), and colon (:). The are no restrictions for the corresponding password.

Currently vRanger only supports Windows instances of NVSD.