Connection to Fritz!Nas on Jolla C2

hello! I recently received my Jolla C2.

After some struggle at first (Sim getting stuck behind screen, Mobile connection and calls not working, and also my own stupidity…), I really am looking forward to using this device more over time.

Everyday I get something new working, but what frustrates me the most is that I am so far unable to connect to Fritz!Nas.

On my old phone I used cxBrowser, which I also tried on the c2, but I did not get this to work.

Sadly there does not seem to be any cifs-utils or similar working on the C2’s architecture (aarch64), so I am unable to use this, which would have been the easiest for me.

I tried:

  • compiling cifs-utils myself
  • using web-dav via cargo dock
  • access via sftp

so far there hasn’t been a satisfying soluton for me.

If anyone would like to help me out, any help would be greatly appreciated :wink:

EDIT: typo

UPDATE: I got Cx Browser to work

There are various solutions to access things via WebDAV, one being rclone, another davfs2.

I wouldn’t bother with cifs if webdav is an option.

EDIT: Sorry, I assumed FritzNAS supported WebDAV as a server.
It appears it only supports it as a client (to some online provider), and service on the LAN is Samba/CIFS only.

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thanks for the reply!

sadly I was not able to get access via webdav working correctly so far.. But will try!

There’s also a small program called cadaver available on Chum.

But the most advanced tool is probably rclone.

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I found out I could not use webdav, as Fritz!Nas does not support access via webdav.

Only if I pay for another webdav-service, I could add it to Fritz!Nas and connect to this.

but I use an USB storage device.

I did get a connection via Cx Browser (Android) to work, but i am sadly somewhat limited, as Cx Browser can only read the /home/user/android_storage/* files

anyway, I found something that workd for me and maybe this may help someone in future :slight_smile:

Sorry, not being very familiar with Fritz things I assumed it could do webdav shares.

Not to give up though, I have packaged cifs-utils on chum:testing. This should provide the mount.cifs binary.

Please test that.

Note: CIFS support depends on the device adaptation (kernel).

For example, C2 does NOT support it, Xperia 10iii does. Check with e.g. zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CIFS.

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FYI, I have done a build of cifs-utils and pushed to Chum - should appear there shortly.

As noted in my comment above, whether the software works depends on the device (kernel) a bit.

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I just used ftp (via rclone) to upload to the fritz nas. But I retired it since it was slow (with usb ssd attached). I’ll give the cif tools a try to see if the volla/gs phones support it.

I recommend using CX Explorer.

It is an android app though…

but it was the only satisfying way “mounting” my share

cifs-utils sadly is not available on the C2, as far as I am aware. I could not set it up.

No android here. I just have scripts running backup jobs using rclone and ftp protocol (only when attached to a specific wlan).

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