Showing posts with label cloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloud. Show all posts

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Using WebDAV with Box.net cloud

You may want to mount you box.net account by your Ubuntu.

What you need;

sudo aptitude install davfs2 -y

This will get DAV file system being enabled.

Later, what you could do is to put your details in davfs configuration file, located at /etc/davfs2/secret

https://www.box.net/dav

Next, you need to mount the box.net through davfs using mount command. 
You can put inside your etc/fstab too, but I found out the system will complain it cannot mount the filesytem (heck, you need to connected to network before you can mount. Wireless connection usually only being enable when you already reached your desktop interface). So I suggest you simply use the command line mount command:

Create mount location first;

sudo mkdir /media/box.net

A bit lengthy, you could paste this to a file, let say mountboxnet.sh and chmod +x, execute by ./mountboxnet.sh later on:
 
sudo mount https://www.box.net/dav -t davfs /media/box.net

You can also find someone else blogged the methods of accessing box.net WebDAV by using nautilus, which is fairly simple too. But I prefer the CLI way :)

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Cloud Computing dan Box.net

GoogleDocs, DropxBox, SugarSync mungkin anda sudah tahu. Pagi ini saya cuba satu perisian baru disebabkan keadaan memaksa saya untuk mengimbas dokumen, walhal saya tidak mempunyai mesin pengimbas. Saya hanya imbas dokumen tersebut dengan fon Android saya, dan muat naik ke Dropbox. Tetapi saya perasan ia juga punya opsyen ke www.box.net

Bagaimana jika saya hendak guna di dalam Ubuntu? Gunakan opsyen "Connect to Server" pada menu "Places" di Ubuntu anda... dan pilih protokol "WebDAV"




Pada fon Android saya, anda boleh dapatkan client daripada website box.net:


Fail yang disenaraikan hanya ada di pelayan box.net, jika anda mahukannya, klik dan urusan muat turun akan dilakukan: