[Guide] Mount Nextcloud (WebDAV) folders locally with davfs

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#21

Success! Everything works like a charm!

I did exactly what @nephros wrote from step 1b (chum was yet installed) to step 8 using a Nextcloud account. Naturally, with tears in my eyes, I had to change nemo into defaultuser, but the rest was C+P and worked at the first try! It’s a little bit slow and it doesn’t refresh directory info realtime, but in general it does exactly what I want!

Thank you so much @nephros and @poetaster

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#22

Cool! @nephros gets the credit. I was just snooping !

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#23

Unfortunately I can’t mount or umount as defaultuser any more! It only works in terminal as devel-su, and then i get a lot of error messages, e.g.

/sbin/mount.davfs: Warnung: der Server kann Dateien nicht sperren

but despite it still works as long as I mount/umount as devel-su in terminal. So, not completely damaged and still hope to make it running for daily driving sometimes.

edit: after the first crash i did deinstall everything and tried to reinstall davfs2 again following @nephros suggestions # 2 .There came some error messages and reinstallation was not possible. So I installed the package with Storeman, davfs2 version 1.5.6-1 again. Is this the right version?

#24

That error about locking is normal and I thnk harmless.

About the OR vs Chum version I’ll have to check what changed.

Are you saying 1.5.x (openrepos) works fine but 1.6.x (chum) does not?

#25

The OR version currently doesn’t work on the Xperia 10, but this may also have other reasons, will say maybe i’ve made some mistakes. Tomorrow I will check again all details.

On the Volla it reported ‘package is yet installed’, so I did not install any package but only create the mountpoint and do the rest until # 8 in the list.

davfs is not listed in Settings/product info/installed packages. edit: on both Xperia 10 and Volla.
(deleted outdated info) But it’s working on the Volla. But it is SLOW!

edit: on X10 it’s version davfs2-1.6.1-1.4.1.jolla.armv7hl ,
on Volla it’s version davfs2-1.6.1-1.4.1.jolla.aarch64

edit: On X10 i deleted the ~/.davfs folder, deinstalled the package with pkvon, and then reinstalled again following # 1b to 8 and now it’s working again.

Thank you all!

#26

For using rclone, @fingus has written a separate guide:

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#27

just my few hints:
defaultuser instead of nemo

for mailbox.org use this https://dav.mailbox.org/servlet/webdav.infostore
secrets is located for me in /etc/davfs2 (did install via chum)

#28

Yes that is the system-wide file. Note that things in the root partition are not encrypted, and it’s better to store secrets in the ~/.davfs2 per-user directory. (The original post mentions ~/davfs2 which is wrong, but I can’t edit the post any more.)

~/.davfs2 should be created automatically by running the mount command at least once.

Also, version 1.7.0 is now available on chum since a day or so.

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#29

thanks for the info regarding encryption
i will change that then to ~/.davfs2

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