Mounting TurboFTP Server File System using davfs2 in Linux
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Mounting TurboFTP Server File System using davfs2 in Linux

TurboFTP Server (with HTTP/S feature enabled) supports WebDAV protocol. Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux all have built-in support for WebDAV, allowing you to connect to a WebDAV share within the file browser. You can also mount a user's home directory under Linux using davfs2. The following shows an example of setting up a WebDAV mount point for Ubuntu Linux user jason, who has a TurboFTP Server account named jsmith. The server is running on IP 192.168.83.1:8443. To access his home directory on the server through WebDAV, he can use a regular WebDAV client like Ubuntu Files to access the following path with his username and password:

davs://192.168.83.1/dav

Now he wants to mount the WebDAV folder under /mnt/mydav. To do so, davfs2 will be installed, and an option in /etc/fstab will be added.

# install davfs2
$ sudo apt-get install davfs2
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2 (if not done in installation)

# set(create) the mount point
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/mydav

# add mount option in /etc/fstab
$ sudo vi /etc/fstab

  https://192.168.83.1:8443/dav /mnt/mydav davfs user,noauto,file_mode=600,dir_mode=700 0     1

# might need to log out and log back in to have it take effect
$ sudo usermod -aG davfs2 jason

$ cd; mkdir .davfs2

# set up WebDAV user credentials
$ vi .davfs2/secrets

  https://192.168.83.1:8443/dav jsmith        PASSWORD

# mount the file system
$ mount /mnt/mydav