[howto] Mount your Box.Net account using WebDAV

[ulriks]

To remount without restarting:

sudo mount -a

I had to remove line 16 and line 18 in my .davfs2/davfs2.conf to get be able to mount box.net. As with most people, I can create folders using the command line, but cp and mv does not work.

Adding box.net as a Network Folder (Kubuntu) allows me to copy and stuff using Dolphin.

[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!!!

[beansbbq]

Hi everyone,


I recently signed up for Ubuntu 7.10 based hosting with VPSLink. I wanted to try mounting Box.net from the command line to get a little more disk. My plan was to place my photos and videos on Box.net, yet be able to access them 'locally'.


Unfortunately I am encountering some problems. I'm receiving the following three lines after I enter my username and password.

===
/sbin/mount.davfs: no free coda device to mount
/sbin/mount.davfs: trying fuse kernel file system
/sbin/mount.davfs: fuse device opened successfully.
===

Now, I'm not sure what to make of this. I see the mount point 'Box.net' on the file system. When I 'cd' onto the mount point and try to 'ls', I receive the following message.

"ls: .: Transport endpoint is not connected
===

Can anyone make any sense of this, and what should I do to fix or get around this? I opted for OpenVZ instead of Xen based hosting. Could this be the cause of my problems?

Thanks in advance...

[allmycrud]

Did you ever get any answers?
I have the problem where I can mount box.net with my user and create folders and copy over files, but only the folders show up in box.net. Anyone have a solution to this?

Thanks

[HappySpaceInvader]

@naked | anyone else:

Nautilus File Browser >> File >> Connect To Server
or
Start Menu >> Places >> Connect To Server

then

[CODE]
Service type = Secure WebDAV (HTTPS)

Ah... there's a problem there, you see in Hardy Heron, I don't get the Secure WebDAV option - just the plain HTTP version.

[EmilyRose]

Yeah, I'm thinking the reason I can't login with the server is because its not HTTPS but only HTTP. So the only way I can get in is through the CL and then I can't access it cause' its mounted as bloody root!!

[ya-manickill]

Does anyone have any idea how to use a proxy through davfs? I would like to access my account when I am at uni, but it uses a proxy at uni, and I can't work out how to do that.

[TheMacFactor]

Does anyone have any idea how to use a proxy through davfs? I would like to access my account when I am at uni, but it uses a proxy at uni, and I can't work out how to do that.

Set it up in /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf

Read

man davfs2.conf

for the full story.

[alexei.colin]

Thank you for the great HowTo!

For me, mount, cp, mv, rm all work, and I can create directories, but the directories are not recognized as directories: cd says: "Not a directory."

Any thoughts on how to make davfs see that the directories are in fact directories? Thank you in advance!