streams/doc/dav_davfs2.md

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/{{Username}} /mount/point davfs user,noauto,uid={{DesktopUser}},file_mode=600,dir_mode=700 0 1

Where {{Username}} is your username at your Red hub, example.com is the URL of your hub, /mount/point is the location you want to mount the cloud, and {{DesktopUser}} 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 {{username}} and {{password}} 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/{{username}}

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.