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

[Joel Burton]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Dunigan, Craig wrote:

> 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?

WebDrive will allow you to map a real drive letter to a WebDAV server.
You can use this to allow attachments of Zope documents to email.
(www.webdrive.com)

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