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Tutorials for newbies!

Automatically Mount Box CloudStorage in Ubuntu 12.04 / 11.10

Yesterday we showed you how to manually mount Box Cloud Storage in

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Today we’re going

to show you how to automatically mount Box Cloud Storage every time you

login to Ubuntu. When your storage is mounted automatically, you won’t

have to manually mount it every time you wish to access your content from

Box.com. It will be there when you login.

To read our previous tutorial on this, click here.

Objectives:

Automatically mount Box Cloud Storage in Ubuntu 12.04 / 11.10

Enjoy!

 

To get started, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When

it opens, run the commands below to install davfs2 package.

sudo apt­get install davfs2

 

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Next, run the commands below to reconfigure davfs2 so that regular users

can mount storages.

 

 

When prompted with the screen below, select Yes.

 

 

Next, run the commands below to copy davfs2 folder to your home directory.

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sudo cp ­r /etc/davfs2/ /home/<username>/.davfs2

 

 

Then run the commands below to change the permissions so that you’re the

owner.

sudo chown ­R <username> /home/richard/.davfs2/

 

 

Next, run the commands below to edit davfs2 secrets file. This is where your

username and password are kept.

gedit ~/.davfs2/secrets

 

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When the file opens, add the line shown below at the end and save.

https://www.box.com/dav <box_username>  <box_password>

 

 

After that, run the commands below to open the fstab configuration file.

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

 

 

Then add the line shown below at the end and save the file.

https://www.box.com/dav/ /home/<username>/box  davfs  _netdev,rw,user 0 0 

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After that, run the commands below to add your account to davfs2 group.

sudo adduser <username> davfs2

 

 

Finally, create the mount point in your home directory where box cloud

storage will be mounted.

mkdir ~/box

 

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Restart your computer to test.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

Remember to replace all <username> with your box account username, and

<password> with your box account password.

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16 thoughts on “Automatically Mount Box CloudStorage in Ubuntu 12.04 / 11.10”

maverick

January 31, 2013 at 1:14 PM

hi, i’m an ubuntu 12.10 user

thank you for your tutorial, i appreciate it.

after i following each steps i got some window pop up, said:

unable to mount box

/sbin/mount.davfs:/home/maverick_endit81/.davfs2/davfs2.conf:24: system

option in user configuration file

/sbin/mount.davfs: Mounting failed.

Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge

could you help me out with this? i’m newbie to linux based environment

maybe if the tutorial couldnt apply to ubuntu 12.10 could you help me to undo

all the procedure?

Anton

Richard W March 30, 2012 How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot,

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

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February 11, 2013 at 2:45 PM

Thanks! It’s work :)

Antopola

February 22, 2013 at 8:05 AM

Thanks for your information…i will use on xubuntu 12.04.

Daughain

February 25, 2013 at 5:43 AM

Followed instructions, and everything went nice and clean. The problem is,

the dir /box connects to nothing..??COmpletely empty, and has no error

messages.

Ideas?

binu

March 28, 2013 at 7:15 AM

hi,

even though you’re tutorial is extremely clean and very easy to follow I have

error when trying to access it. I also tried a “sudo mount -a” but have the

same message:

“/sbin/mount.davfs: file /etc/davfs2/secrets has wrong permissions”

I verified all steps again and exactly as mentioned.

Does anyone have any clue to help?

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binu

March 28, 2013 at 7:40 AM

I solved my problem by changing the /etc/davfs2/secret to 600

NeurOSick

May 5, 2013 at 9:29 AM

Work great on Ubuntu 13.04 but loading “box folder” is very slow, anyidea?

piobaire24

June 23, 2013 at 6:42 AM

I have the same issue with Ubuntu 13.04…very slow

marc

November 26, 2013 at 2:22 PM

Hi Richard your tuto is really helpfull and I used it for mounting box

it comes that box has changed its server for webdav and it is now

https://dav.box.com/dav

as stated on their site : https://support.box.com/hc/en-

us/articles/200519748-Does-Box-support-WebDAV-

So as I have used your tuto it is now my turn to contribute to it

regards

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mallik

January 17, 2014 at 1:50 AM

Please note that box.com address is

https://dav.box.com/dav

andrew

February 2, 2014 at 4:42 AM

I’ve tried the process above (substituting the different WebDAV server based

upon the comments) on an Ubuntu server. Now the server is not responding

to login attempts via shell – is it just trying to sync the drive and it just takes

forever, or do i have a bigger problem ? I can ping it, but it doesn’t respond to

SCP…

andrew

February 2, 2014 at 10:37 AM

Furhter to my question above, I tried it again on Amazon AWS just as an

experiment. It doesn’t block the server, but unless I do a “mount ~/box”

after logging in the box folder remains empty and invisible… Does anyone

have any ideas ?

Thanks for the varoius helpful posts, but thos one I’m really struggling to get

it right !

Alex Barchiesi

February 19, 2014 at 8:53 AM

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I confirm that it works on ubuntu 12.04 with the https://dav.box.com/dav

https://dav.box.com/dav/ instead of https://www.box.com

https://www.box.com/

thanks

Julián

April 17, 2014 at 7:17 PM

Tanto el montaje manual, como el descrito aquí, no funcionan para las

cuentas gratuitas.

El acceso FTP está restringido para los usuarios de pago.

Si se configura el sistema Ubuntu, teniendo una cuenta gratuita en BOX, da

problemas que tal vez algunos no sepan resolver. Al “Cerrar sesión” se

bloquea el sistema por imposibilidad de montar “davfs”.

He resuelto el problema deshaciendo todo lo hecho.

Con una suscripción, funciona fino.

Muchas gracias por la aportación.

Jesús Rafael

March 9, 2015 at 6:11 PM

Hola Julián,

Soy nuevo en esto. Y efectivamente, se bloquea al cerrar seción. ¿Cómo pudeo

deshacer todo lo hecho?.

Saludos.

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loanemu.com

October 14, 2015 at 3:41 AM

Major thanks for the article.Much thanks again. Cool.

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