[Zope] Help! The suits are taking away my Zope!

[seb bacon]

Craig,

I don't have any direct suggestions to help, other than a conviction
that what you want *can* be done.  I *think* it is possible to hack
around the m$ webdav deficiencies; others may be able to help more on
this topic.  Have you searched the list archives?  I think ChrisW and
Andreas and Shane have all talked aobut this before.

On the point about drive letters: one solution is to use webdrive, about
which I've heard good things:

http://www.webdrive.com

good luck.  I hope you don't have to struggle with sharepoint :-(

seb

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 18:36, Dunigan, Craig wrote:
> One, you can't use Office2K for collaborative editing of a document.  Now,
> *we* know that's because Microsoft didn't do WebDAV right.  But the suits'
> perception is "it works with SharePoint, so something must be wrong with
> Zope."  I have no doubts that this is exactly the reaction that MS planned
> for.  Is there any way to make Zope work with the bastardized MS
> implementation of WebDAV?  
> 
> Their second complaint is that users can't attach a Zope-served document to
> an email from within MS Outlook.  I've tried everything I can think of, but
> Outlook appears to be brain-damaged.  It seems to me that it can only
> understand "drive letters," not even the so-called WebDAV Folders that MS
> uses.  By "drive letters," it seems to mean UNC mapped SMB shares.  Has
> anyone done any work with making the ZODB speak SMB?  I'd really like to
> stay with the ZODB for storage, because the way ZEO works is one of my
> biggest selling points for Zope.  If I have to go to FileStorage to use
> Samba, and arrange for scheduled replication over the VPN, I'd be in no
> better shape than SharePoint, and we'd lose that near real-time thing that
> everyone seems to love.  So, can anyone tell me how to get Zope to serve
> something that Outlook can understand?
> 
> Craig Dunigan
> Web Programmer
> Esker Software
> 608.273.6000 
> 
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