Saturday, December 8, 2012

How to access Box.com files from Ubuntu 12.10?


1. sudo apt-get install davfs2

2. sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2

    In the screen select Yes

3. sudo cp -r /etc/davfs2/ ~/.davfs2

4. sudo chown -R [ubuntu username] ~/.davfs2/

5. edit ~/.davfs2/secrets. add this line at the end of the file:
    https://www.box.com/dav [box.com username] [box.com password]

6. edit ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf. uncomment:
    use_locks 0

7. sudo adduser [ubuntu username] davfs2

8. mkdir ~/box.com

9. edit /etc/fstab. add this line at the end of the file:
     https://www.box.com/dav/ /home/[ubuntu username]/box.com davfs _netdev,rw,user 0 0

10. reload fstab
      mount -a

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