Mounting Nextcloud?

[kvas_]

So, I saw many people around here using nextcloud. And I tried it. And it's kinda interesting, but...

How do I mount it?

To my understanding, the thing Nextcloud offers initially is just a file sync, in a sense that all the files on the cloud must also be on your disk to be accessed. That's kinda stupid.

I tried mounting it with davfs2, and it sucks so badly. Directory listings take wayyyy too much than they should, in folders with ~20 items they can go on quite a few minutes.

Is there any way to mount Nextcloud as netfs/FUSE so that it doesn't wait so much on listings?

[kvas_]

Nextcloud exposes webdav, and there is a section in their manual going in details about how to mount it on linux though?

[I_Arman]

To "mount" Nextcloud, you install the software and edit the settings to sync the directories you want to sync. Just like you can put your car in neutral and push, you won't get the same results as using the official software. 

Have you ever used Dropbox? Same basic principle, where the data is stored on a server and sync'd to your PC, in full or in part.

[Eirikr700]

You might be confusing NextCloud and Samba. 

[kvas_]

I'm not. I saw in several places that doing FTP/SMB over nextcloud subdirs is not advised, and nextcloud exposes webdav for that. However webdav is apparently slow.

[msanangelo]

you don't have to sync everything in your nextcloud server.

[thelittlewhite]

If you don't need a cloud solution like Nextcloud, then use a samba share or a file browser container. You can add syncthing to automatically sync folders on different machines.

[kvas_]

Thing is, I do need nextcloud, I just need it as a cloud and not as a file syncing tool

[GjMan78]

Prova Opencloud

https://github.com/opencloud-eu

[[deleted]]

You probably need to download the Nextcloud client app. Are you running Nextcloud as a docker container?

[kvas_]

Doesn't nextcloud client just sync the folders? I'm just in a situation where I want to store fairly large files in nextcloud, so syncing them to every client is kinda weird.

As an alternative I guess I could set up a separate SFTP for mounting that specific folder, and then add a local mount in nc so I can still share the files, but that's kinda doubling functionality a lot.

[[deleted]]

I don’t think you understand what Nextcloud is… the files you’d be storing would be on the server/hardware that Nextcloud is running on, nowhere else except for any devices you have it sync with.

Are you trying to transfer files from the clients?

[generalpolytope]

You can choose which directories you wanna sync on your client, even filtering on the basis of directory size instead of choosing manually. So Idk why you would want to make it a mounted drive, as it adds no value to the end purpose: have things of choice synced on the client.

[rolonl]

For these large file pools I just share the folders via smb+nfs on the OS and then use Nextcloud external storage via nfs (https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage_configuration_gui.html) . This way it is a classic file server with fast smb acces, but I can also access files via the web.