BeeHub/Step 2: Mounting BeeHub

Mounting BeeHub on your PC

After you've completed step 1 (getting an account), a new BeeHub account has been created for you, and you should have received an email with a username and password. If you haven’t, something has gone wrong and you should contact us.

What happens next depends on which operating system you're running. Please jump to the appropriate section on this page. If your favorite operating system or client is not on this page, please let us know.

Microsoft Windows

Vista and Windows 7 build-in clients

1. Open "Computer" from the "start" menu.

2. Right click on your mouse

3. Click on "Add a Network Location"

4. Continue XP build-in client to #3

XP build-in client and below

1. Click "Start", and then "My Network Places":

2. Click "Add Network Place":

3. Click "Next":

4. Select "Choose another network location" and click "Next"

5. Enter the http://webdav.sara.nl (HTTP) or https://webdav.sara.nl (HTTPS) and then click "Next":

6. Enter your BeeHub user name and password and click "OK":

7. Enter a name for your BeeHub connection. The default is probably fine, but you can call the connection anything you like:

8. Click "Finish":

You now have created a BeeHup connection.

Click "Start", and then "My Network Places" to connect the next time.

Double click your BeeHub connection:

Now you can browse your files:

Linux

Nautilus (Gnome file browser)

At the topbar choose Places->Connect to server...:

Connect with http or https. User name should be <beehup_username>@<domain>.nl:

With https the port number is 443:

Now you can browse to your files:

Dolphin or Konqueror (KDE4 file browser)

1. Enter remote:/ into the navigation bar in Dolphin or Konqueror.

2. Click “Add Network Folder”

3. You then have a choice of webdav, ftp, Microsoft Windows network drive, or ssh. Choose the one you want.

4. Enter the connection name, server, username, and password information as requested.

5. Click “Save & Connect”.

wdfs (a FUSE plugin)

Mounting WebDAV filesystems (using wdfs)

If you have an online file storage area accessible using WebDAV then you can mount them just like any other filesystem. This allows you to work with online files just as though they are on your local computer. All the packages are available from the Fedora repositories.

All the steps must be done as root.

Firstly make sure you have the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) files installed, this is simple using yum:

 # yum install fuse

Next we need to install the wdfs rpm package:

 # yum install wdfs

Next create the mount point:

 # mkdir /mnt/webdav

Mounting from the command line

From the README file the usage is very simple:

usage:

$ mkdir ~/mountpoint
$ wdfs http[s]://webdav.sara.nl[:443][/directory/] ~/mountpoint [options]
$ wdfs -h      # prints wdfs and fuse options

So following this the following command mounts the file system (username=<username@<domain>.nl):

1. wdfs http[s]://webdav.sara.nl/ /mnt/webdav -o username=******,password=******,allow_other

The allow_other option is very important as without it only root can view the mounted files. You can leave the username and/or password out if you wish so you will be prompted for them when you mount the file system.

The remote file system is now mounted, to unmount just do umount /mnt/webdav as you would with any mounted file system.

Mounting using an fstab entry

This is achieved by adding the following line to your /etc/fstab file as root (all on one line):

wdfs#http[s]://webdav.sara.nl/ /mnt/webdav fuse allow_other,uid=0,gid=500,nonempty,username=******,umask=007,locking=simple,noauto

Notice here I have not added the password, this is because the fstab file is world readable so anyone could see your password. This way you will be prompted for it when you mount the file system. Also as explained above the noauto command prevents this being mounted at boot (prevents hanging if I'm not connected to the Internet).

To mount the system is now just like any other.

1. mount /mnt/webdav

davfs2 (either as FUSE plugin or kernel space filesystem)

davfs2 is available as a Debian/Ubuntu package, so it's easy to install with apt-get install davfs2. Once installed, you can connect via the commandline straight away, if you have sudo access:

sudo mount -t davfs http://webdav.example.com/directory /mnt/

This will mount the specified WebDAV share at /mnt. You'll be asked for the username and password to connect with, if the share is secured. When you're done, unmount with

sudo umount /mnt

This isn't entirely convenient, though; it's better to be able to mount the directory as a normal user. Edit

/etc/fstab

to set up a mountpoint by adding a line like this:

http://webdav.example.com/directory /home/juliet/mnt/webdav davfs rw,noauto,user 0 0

You'll need to create the mountpoint with

mkdir -p /home/juliet/mnt/webdav

if it doesn't already exist.

If you try running mount

/home/juliet/mnt/webdav

now, as a non-root user, you'll be told that

/sbin/mount.davfs

is not setuid root. Fix this by running

sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2

and answering 'yes' to the setuid question. You'll also need to add your user to the davfs group (either

edit /etc/group

or use sudo gpasswd -a username davfs). Log out and in again to update the group information.

Now try mount

~/mnt/webdav

again.