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Installing The Cloud as a Filesystem on Linux
To install your cloud directory as a filesystem, you first need davfs2 installed. 99% of the time, this will be included in your distributions repositories. In Debian
apt-get install davfs2
If you want to let normal users mount the filesystem
dpkg-reconfigure davfs2
and select "yes" at the prompt.
Now you need to add any user you want to be able to mount dav to the davfs2 group
usermod -aG davfs2 <DesktopUser>
Edit /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab
to include your cloud directory by adding
example.com/cloud/ /mount/point davfs user,noauto,uid=<DesktopUser>,file_mode=600,dir_mode=700 0 1
Where example.com is the URL of your hub, /mount/point is the location you want to mount the cloud, and is the user you log in to one your computer. Note that if you are mounting as a normal user (not root) the mount point must be in your home directory.
For example, if I wanted to mount my cloud to a directory called 'cloud' in my home directory, and my username was bob, my fstab would be
example.com/cloud/ /home/bob/cloud davfs user,noauto,uid=bob,file_mode=600,dir_mode=700 0 1
Now, create the mount point.
mkdir /home/bob/cloud
and also create a directory file to store your credentials
mkdir /home/bob/.davfs2
Create a file called 'secrets'
nano /home/bob/.davfs2/secrets
and add your cloud login credentials
example.com/cloud <username> <password>
Where and are the username and password for your hub.
Don't let this file be writeable by anyone who doesn't need it with
chmod 600 /home/bob/.davfs2/secrets
Finally, mount the drive.
mount example.com/cloud
You can now find your cloud at /home/bob/cloud and use it as though it were part of your local filesystem - even if the applications you are using have no dav support themselves.