ethoms / netdrive-connector

Utility to setup mountable SFTP and WebDAV connections.
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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some questions about this application #1

Open cocodrino opened 6 years ago

cocodrino commented 6 years ago

Hi, good day, I've a few questions about this software

1) I've added my livedrive folder as show in the documentation


sudo /usr/bin/add-webdav-connector webdav.livedrive.com /home/yo/Descargas/mounts <myuser> <pass>

this run without any notification, but my folder is not mounted, do I need run other command???

2) what technology use this for webdav???...I had have bad experience with davfs2 so I'm trying to found another way to mount my webdav remote server as folder

thank you so much...have a good day!!!...

ethoms commented 6 years ago

Sorry for the late reply.

1.) that command should have added an entry into your /etc/fstab file and ~/.davfs2/secrets file. If you install it fully, there is a GUI to do everything from, the commmand line utility 'add-webdav-connector' gets run in the background. However, if you only want to use the command line, simply run "mount /home/yo/Descargas/mounts" or "mount mounts" if you are already in the Descargas directory. How have you installed it? If from a distro repo, and assuming it's packaged properly, it should work. However, if from PyPi it will need a few dependencies installed and some extra setting up. If so, read the packaging notes and dependencies section of the README.rst.

2.) netdrive-connector is a utility to manage webdav and sshd connections. It's not a webdav client itself. Currently it uses davfs2 in the background, although I have distance plans to make my own webdav client alternative to davfs2. We use davfs2 in heavy production at my workplace, it's pretty solid. However, with it only using a cache and with no seek support, large files can take a while to load. We had to make sure to not inspect files for mime magic when browsing directories, as it will trigger all files to download just to list their file size / type etc.

Hope this helps.