sabre/dav is amazing

I worked on a company that had multiple issues with mounted folders using smb across a wide variety of desktop clients (that was around 2012).

Customers would name their files with weird characters, would use OS X folder colors and expect them to stick, etc. We needed to support all of that.

One day we tested replacing smb with webdav mounts powered by a thin layer based off sabre/dav. It just worked out of the box. All of our issues were gone. It's client support is the best I've seen.

It also allowed us to create virtual files, setup caching and a lot of other goodies that seemed impossible with smb.