[Owncloud] Puzzlement about sharing a folder...

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Christian Reiner
<info at christian-reiner.info> wrote:
> 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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