[Owncloud] Puzzlement about sharing a folder...

[Christian Reiner]

Hm, 
so now I still don't know if I am just to stupid to get that to work or if 
ownClouds file handling really is that broken. 

I see more problems: 
I integrated a dropbox folder into owncloud as external file resource. 
After a first success to see the dropbox files inside owncloud I now have 
these persistent issues I cannot solve: 

- whatever files I now change, no changes are reflected any more. Neither 
files uploaded to owncloud are handed over to dropbox, nor are files that 
appear there shown in owncloud any more. 
- trying to use the sync client led right into chaos: 
after a first synchronisation that kind of worked though it took endless hours 
I soon got conflicts, although no files were changed (system times are 
synchronized using NTP). I stopped the client, removed the conflict files but 
since then either the client starts and just sits there claimng somethging 
like "waiting for the sync to start" without it ever starting, or it claims it 
did synchronize, but the info popup shows a zero (0) for all file sections 
despite the fact that there are files present and files have changed. 

No idea what I do wrong. 
Christian Reiner (arkascha)


On Friday 07 June 2013 18:07:53 Christian Reiner wrote:
> Hi all,
> it actually is the first time I thought of using my ownCloud to share some
> files I needed later the day from a public place. Indeed, I use that
> ownCloud a lot, but only for non file related things.
> So I created a fresh folder and uploaded the files into that folder using
> webdav from within my dolphin file manager. Three clicks and done: great.
> Next I chose the "share" icon and selected "Share with link", copied the
> resulting URL and had a try with another browser (not logged in).
> 
> The result of my tests so far:
> - konqueror & rekonq: unable to load page but no error message on the
> server! - chrome & firefox: displaying the folder as shared, but not all
> files within the folder. Also when trying to access any file offered I am
> redirected to the login page. Doesn't a shared folder allow to access the
> files within? So I rechecked and saw that all the files inside the folder
> were marked as shared (apparently automatic, I guess because the folder has
> been shared). Nevertheless: no way to access the file, except when logging
> in.
> 
> So unfortunately in this case: totally unusable.
> ownCloud is in version 5.0.7 on an openSUSE system and works fine apart from
> using the files stuff.
> 
> So my question:
> What do I miss here? I can't imagine sharing is that broken in ownCloud!
> 
> Christian Reiner (arkascha)
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