[Owncloud] Thoughts on converting a Chromebook to an Ownbook

[Drew Gibson]

Hi Frank,

my ambitions are a little more modest for now. It annoys me that I have 
to send a file from the netbook on the table by my left hand, half way 
across the continent and back to view it on the Chromebook on my lap. 
That's what Google Drive does for me.

With the Chromebook, I can access almost all of the features of Owncloud 
with out modifying anything. Indeed, I could mount my Google Drive into 
Owncloud but it's Google Drive I'm trying to avoid.

I've had a look at some of the filesync apps available for Chrome and it 
does look feasible to create a WebDAV
app, perhaps through NaCl.

Even this "baby step" is a mountain for me because my javascript 
knowledge is next to zero.

regards,

Drew


Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that's interesting. I would switch to a chromebook connected to my ownCloud immediately.
> Unfortunately this would require some work.
>
> Your ownCloud has to provide OAuth so that you can use your ownCloud credentials to log into your chromebook. Than ownCloud has to provide all kind of Google API to sync the configuration for example. I don't know if this is an open protocol.
> And then your ownCloud server has to provide Chrome WebApps for all the installed ownCloud Apps so that you can use your ownCloud for example for managing files.
>
> ChromeOS has to be patched to authenticate against your server of course which is tricky because of code signing.
>
> Would be awesome if someone would work on that.
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 14.05.2013, at 16:57, Drew Gibson<aggibson at cogeco.ca>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've owned a Chromebook for two weeks now (the Samsung ARM model) and I'm thoroughly impressed with the machine as a replacement for my ageing Asus eee 901. Nice format, weight, k/b and screen (for 1/4 the price of a Macbook Air), very responsive web browsing . However, I am suffering a strong allergic reaction to being borged by Google.
>>
>> I'd like it to be an "OwnBook", depending not on Google but on my Owncloud.
>>
>> The 16GB internal SSD is a known and accepted limitation, it is what it is. Biggest frustration is the lack of support for file sharing, no nfs, atalk or webdav support. My Chromebook is alone in a sea of data (unless, of course, you push the files up to Google Drive).
>>
>> The Chrome Web Store has apps for various "cloudy" file sync/share services, has anyone contemplated a webdav app for OC?
>>
>> Ideally, I would like to mount a WebDAV share to appear in the File Manager alongside Google Drive and the SD card.
>>
>> A quick search (on Google, of course!) found two sample projects (links below), one is an implementation of the dropbox.js API inside Chrome and the other is a WebDAV API in js. It looks like I have hit my current limit for developing the idea asjava_script is a foreign country to me.
>>
>> Is anyone currently looking at this or a similar concept?
>> Can anyone recommend a js primer for a sysadmin who hacks at php?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Drew
>>
>> https://github.com/pwnall/dropship-chrome
>> http://johnnydebris.net/java_script/
>>
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