Mounting WebDAV GMX.net Mediacenter with davfs on Ubuntu Feisty

The only way I could access the GMX Mediacenter on my Ubuntu Feisty install was by using Konqueror. Nautilus or mount with davfs aborted with errors. This is caused by the buggy/non-standard GMX WebDAV Server. Installing the current Debian unstable package makes access possible.

The developers of davfs2 are kindly trying to include workarounds into their code, but sometimes these get broken between releases. But the current Debian unstable package does work.
I rebuilt the package on Ubuntu 7.04 as described in my hddtemp posting using unmodified Debian sources. You may download the resulting i386 package.

I haven’t done any fine tuning of my setup yet, like automount and user access. But it is indeed working this way for me:

Create mount point

# mkdir /media/webdav-gmx

Add mount commands to /etc/fstab

# gmx mediacenter
https://mediacenter.gmx.net/    /media/webdav-gmx    davfs   user,noauto   0     0

Add login (Customer No. and password) to /etc/davfs2/secrets

# gmx mediacenter
https://mediacenter.gmx.net/    0123456            P455W0rdsRfun

Mount it

# mount /media/webdav-gmx

ChangeLog

[2009-04-26: Fix box.net links.]