Bluehost : Web Disk not working on Mac

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This is a bluehost question posted by Jmac on 20 July 2007

I downloaded the Mac Webdisk client but when I run it here’s what happens:

After clicking on the “Run” button, I get a dialog box titled ‘Verify Certificate’ with the message:

“The certificate for this WebDAV server is invalid. You might be connecting to a WebDAV server that is pretending to be “x.com” which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the WebDAV server anyway?”

When I click on the Show Certificate button the host is correct (i.e. it’s my account at bluehost: ‘boxnnn.bluehost.com’ and even though I have clicked on “Always Trust” I still get the above warning.

Until I went into Keychain Access and edited “Always Trust” into the certificate, I couldn’t even connect to the Web Disk. Now that I’ve done that i can connect, (i.e. the folder named ‘mydomain.com’ appears in Finder), but its contents never do – just the spinning beach ball and shortly thereafter a message box saying “Server connection interrupted: mydomain.com” with a “Disconnect” button. And then some time later I’ll get another message saying “Apple event timed out” and then the Web Disk App closes.

Before this happens Pathfinder will even show the disk capacity – 2047.9 Gb!!!!! (popping eyeballs) but the closest I’v got to any of that is seeing the names of the folders in the domain root.

Has anybody out there got their WebDisk working on a Mac? What did you do different to what I did?

Any help appreciated.

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