I’m running kde with dolphin. I’m using sshfs mainly. So I tried today to test webdav on nextcloud and frankly I wasn’t expecting it to be usable. Anyway, the dolphin wizard is misleading. According to the NC docs :
. Enter the following settings:
- Name: the name you want to see in the Places bookmark, for example, Nextcloud.
- User: the Nextcloud username you used to log in, for example, admin.
- Server: the Nextcloud domain name, for example, example.com (without http:// before or directories afterwards).
- Folder – Enter the path
nextcloud/remote.php/dav/files/USERNAME/.
But what I was doing is to provide the full domain+path+“remote.php/dav/files/USERNAME” in server and only “/” in folder. What worked : in server only the main domain (not of NC but of yuno) and the rest in folder. Anyway, I don’t know why it didn’t work with the first approach when you can simply use webdavs://USER@drive.DOMAIN.ovh:443/remote.php/dav/files/USER/ in the address bar.
it poped up multiple times that the site doesn’t have authentication, do you continue? I said yes to all. and at last it asked for password.
Another important thing to note :
When using a third-party WebDAV client (including your operating system’s built-in client), you should use an application password for login rather than your regular password. In addition improved security, this increases performance significantly
In NC webadmin > personal settings > Security > create an app password (at the bottom).
I must say that I was impressed even if it could be better but I remember that I dropped NC webdav because it was way too slow.