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OwnCloud - Client Issues

WebDAV

Documentation: https://doc.owncloud.org/server/latest/user_manual/files/access_webdav.html

WebDAV Client: https://cyberduck.io/

:!: Older versions of Windows will require you to download and install a WebDAV client, whereas newer Windows operating systems include built-in WebDAV functionality.

This may be a great solution for RDS (terminal) servers. With multi-user Windows systems, it is very problematic to use typical Windows Desktop Clients (OwnCloud Desktop Clients, Dropbox client, etc.) Think 'disk full' errors…

Windows 2012 R2 RDS Server Example

  1. Install Desktop Experience
    • Server Manager → Add Features → User Interfaces and Infrastructure → Desktop Experience
  2. Configure the WebClient service
    1. Services → WebClient → Properties → Set to Automatic
    2. Start the WebClient service
  3. Enable BasicAuth
    1. Open regedit.exe
    2. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters
    3. Set the DWORD value BasicAuthLevel to 1
  4. Reboot
    • FIXME Unnecessary to reboot?

Windows 8.1 WebDAV Client Example

CLI

Open a DOS command prompt, then (using your own OC server, username and password):

net use Z: https://your.ocserver.tld/remote.php/webdav /user:yourusername yourocpassword

GUI

You can use the Windows Explorer Map Network Drive feature to map a network drive to your own OwnCloud account.

  1. Right-click on the Computer icon and select Map network drive
  2. Choose an unused drive letter to which you want to map your OwnCloud share
  3. Specify the URL to your OwnCloud share
    • https://your.ocserver.tld/remote.php/webdav
  4. Select Reconnect at sign-in to ensure that the mapping survives a reboot
  5. Select Connect using different credentials and enter your OC credentials when prompted
  6. Click Finish
computing/storage/owncloud_client.1481144505.txt.gz · Last modified: 2016/12/07 14:01 by gcooper