[howto] Mount your Box.Net account using WebDAV

[pingflood]

Hello!

You can mount your Box.Net account to easily upload/download files.

First, install davfs2:

# apt-get install davfs2

Now, create the mount directory:

# mkdir /media/box.net

and mount:

# mount -t davfs http://www.box.net/dav /media/box.net

Insert your username and password and it's done!

You can also put your username/password in /etc/davfs2/secrets

echo "http://www.box.net/dav   username   password" >> /etc/davfs2/secrets

So, mount will not ask for username/password.

Also, Konqueror can access Box.Net directly using the WebDAV protocol:

webdav://www.box.net/dav

(I think the protocol is just "dav://" in Nautilus)

If you want a Free Box.Net account,
Box.Net

Tested in Kubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06

More info and options:

$ man mount.davfs

Regards,
Ping Fløød
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[patrick295767]

Thank you !
Very nice

Btw, Is there somethg else than box.net
is there any good concurrents to this program ??

Pat'

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I tried; works great !!
I added -o rw
but still cannot drag & drop (copy) from rox filer ... Is it normal ??

Thx

[Gaurne]

is this script safe? (sorry, I'm newbish).

Hey guys,

I couldn't agree more. I really don't get why more people just don't get it.

Great post, keep it up.

Cheers!

[tcort]

Wow, Box.net is really cool. Thanks for posting the howto.

[joakim2]

Hmm.... this seems to be doing some really strange things... Copying a picture into the /media/box.net/ folder seems to work, using mv to move the picture it has suddenly disappeared (though it's now showing in the web interface but without a name...) I would be careful with this service

[naked]

I was trying to do this via "Connect to server" in the places menu and kept having trouble, how should I put the settings in there? I'd like the keyring to manager my password for this and also auto connect for me.

Is this possible?

L

[patrick295767]

I was trying to do this via "Connect to server" in the places menu and kept having trouble, how should I put the settings in there? I'd like the keyring to manager my password for this and also auto connect for me.

Is this possible?

L

For the autoconnect, I guess the regular /etc/fstab would work ...
then, you can play with permissions.


And, to mount the google box, is it the same way ?

[Botsinge]

The problem with I/O Errors upon copying/moving files has to do with the webdav server not responding well to file locks.

Add 'nolocks' to the options in the fstab entry or add '-o nolocks' on the command line.

See this thread for more info http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p...forum_id=82589

[aitorcalero]

Thank you very much! Finally I could use WebDAV!!!

[Gaurne]

Quote: Thank you ! Very nice Btw, Is there somethg else than box.net is there any good concurrents to this program ?? Pat' - I tried; works great !! I added -o rw but still cannot drag & drop (copy) from rox filer ... Is it normal ?? Thx Hey guys, I couldn't agree more. I really don't get why more people just don't get it. Great post, keep it up. Cheers!

Hey guys,

I couldn't agree more. I really don't get why more people just don't get it.

Great post, keep it up.

Cheers!