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Accessing MyFiles from Linux: davfs2 [MOVED]

Author: Ken Johnson Reference Number: AA-00547 Views: 1538 Created: 05-15-2012 11:51 am Last Updated: 05-15-2013 03:05 pm

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Thanks to Brandon Tanner for the steps for this instruction page.

Requirements:

Linux
Neon Client Library - 2.4, 2.5, or 2.6 (ldconfig -v | grep libneon)
FUSE or Coda support - Either one enabled in your Kernel (less /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i fuse)
DavFS2 - Install from Source
OpenSSL or GnuTLS - Should already have it (locate openssl or gnutls)

Conventions:

Instructions:

Do a Test Mount

# mkdir -p /mnt/tmp

# mount -t davfs https://myfiles.letu.edu/students/users/LETU_USER /mnt/tmp/
- You will be asked for your LETU_USER and password, and to accept its certificate. If it all works right, the contents of /mnt/tmp will now be your LeTourneau MyFiles.
- Since using root to access our files is a bad habit, lets umount it and move on.
  # cd /
  
  # umount /mnt/tmp
Setup the davfs2 Group
In order to be able to mount davfs2 file systems using your USERNAME, we have to add your USERNAME to the davfs2 group. It is assumed that installation of the davfs2 software involved creating of the davfs user and group.
# usermod -a -G davfs2 USERNAME
Setup /etc/fstab
Now we can add a line to the /etc/fstab file so that we can mount our network files in our home directory. As root, append the following line to your /etc/fstab file.
https://myfiles.letu.edu/students/users/LETU_USER /home/USERNAME/letu davfs defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0
Mount your MyFiles

$ cd ~

$ mkdir letu

$ mount letu
- The server asks for your LETU_USER and password, and possibly, to accept the server certificate. ~/letu now contains the contents of your LeTourneau MyFiles.
To Un-Mount your MyFiles
$ cd ~; umount letu
The output will look like the following:

/sbin/umount.davfs: waiting while mount.davfs (pid ###) synchronizes the cache .. OK

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