From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 4 23:55:52 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ABC09B32A1 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 23:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131A9A88 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 23:55:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 4F870CB8CAB; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:55:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.4 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:55:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <28096.128.135.52.4.1438732545.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:55:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: How do you guys do it with Owncloud (client)? From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Christian Baer" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal References: <2190738.oaEa4U0gL2@falbala> In-Reply-To: <2190738.oaEa4U0gL2@falbala> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:55:52 -0000 On Sun, August 2, 2015 10:59 am, Christian Baer wrote: > Hello everybody! > > Although the weather is great today around where I live (not a cloud in the > sky), I have decided I want to get this working! I guess I have > stubbornness > issues. :-) > > I've been using OC for quite some time now (on shared hosting) and the clients > for Windows (home) and Linux (work). As some of you may remember, a while > ago > I bought a new computer and now I find myself almost exclusively using FreeBSD > at home, which of course brought up the wish to use OC on FreeBSD. > > Fulfilling this wish has been pretty frustrating so far and quite frankly, > I > have no idea why I haven't found much more bitching about this on the web. > Disclaimer: This is not me bitching! I am simply staggered by the fact that > such a commonly used software doesn't have a flood of howtos and comments > about it not working under FreeBSD on the client side. > > Anyways, moving on... :-) > > The official OwnCloud (Linux) Desktop Client does not (seem to) work under > FreeBSD. I haven't looked into this myself, but I am guessing this is a FUSE > issue. I want to use the OC client on my fileserver (which runs FreeBSD like > my workstation), so I don't terribly mind that there is no GUI. A while back I > did some research and found out, that ocsync (some front-end to csync) was > the > way to go under FreeBSD. Back then the almost utter lack of documentation > about ocsync put me off a bit, because I had more important things to do at > the time and didn't want to spend that much time working this out. > > Today I thought, I'd spend half a day if needed and get this to work. So I > updated my ports to the current revision and look for ocsync - and it was > gone. Another piece of software I came accross was mirall, and > whatdoyouknow? > It's gone too! At first I thought this was some mistake and my update of the > ports tree had broken something. But there are no manpages for these on freebsd.org anymore either - which is a pretty sure sign that there is no > official support for them. > > What all this boils down to: > I am pretty sure that some of you will be using FreeBSD on the desktop as > I am > and there is a good chance that a subset of those will use OwnCloud. How do > you do it? How did you set it up? Where did you get your > information/documentation from? > > I am grateful for anything useful on this! > Just in case you didn't get your answers yet: 1. I have owncloud server on FreeBSD 9.3 (I know this is not what you asked). Installed and updated through ports. 2. I have clients on a variety of systems: CentOS, Windows 7, MacOS (10.10), Android, FreeBSD 10.1,... On FreeBSD 10.1 client was installed using pkg: pkg install owncloudclient User of FreeBSD machine then executed the command owncloud upon which in GUI panel he was prompted about server URL, username, password and where user prefer to put stuff locally... Also, it was added to Startup Applications of the user so the sync daemon is started for user upon login (the user uses Mate, the same should happen for Gnome). Did you try this route? What didn't work for you? Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++