Can we mount it without using "rclone config" to add and configure WebDAV first, and instead directly perform the mounting through a single command?

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Can we mount it without using "rclone config" to add and configure WebDAV first, and instead directly perform the mounting through a single command?

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welcome to the forum,

yes, at least two ways.

  1. connection strings.
  2. environment variables.
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Could you give me a reference command?
“rclone mount "webdav:" X: --url="http://example.com/dav" --user="abc" --pass="abc" --vendor=other --cache-dir="D:\rclone_cache" --vfs-cache-mode=full”

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https://rclone.org/docs/#connection-strings
https://rclone.org/docs/#environment-variables

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Hello, I'm a bit slow on the uptake. I hope you could point out where the mistakes are.

D:\rclone>rclone mount ":webdav,user='testuser',pass='abcdaccco',url='http://192.168.1.210:5005':/" Z: --vfs-cache-mode writes --vfs-cache-max-age 60s
2025/08/09 02:30:36 CRITICAL: Failed to create file system for ":webdav,user='testuser',pass='abcdaccco',url='http://192.168.1.210:5005':/": couldn't decrypt password: base64 decode failed when revealing password - is it obscured?: illegal base64 data at input byte 8

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no problem.

rclone obscure abcdaccco
FyEYZmDUZTO6ye3T0a75rMcKYXJICJO6iQ

rclone ls ":webdav,user='testuser',pass='FyEYZmDUZTO6ye3T0a75rMcKYXJICJO6iQ',url='http://192.168.1.210:5005':/"
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