Owncloud Windows 7/8 Integration

scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller What purpose do you use it for? A dropbox/box replacement? Or do you use it to collaborate and share files with clients? Which I guess are things dropbox/box can also do. So I I assume it is a dropbox/box replacement.

We do not expose it to clients. We use it as a replacement for traditional fileserver duties primarily.

coliver

@scottalanmiller How do your users access it usually, via the web browser? Sync client? Mounted webdav share? (this dropping the last character thing is kind of annoying)-

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller How do your users access it usually, via the web browser? Sync client? Mounted webdav share? (this dropping the last character thing is kind of annoying)-

Right now, mostly client and sometimes web.

scottalanmiller

Have not used WebDAV on Windows. Would be awesome to have that working, though.

coliver

@scottalanmiller I'll keep digging into it. What NTG is using it for would be my use case for this company as well. I wonder if Windows 10 has better support for webdav.

coliver

Alright it looks like the following is the case:
From here https://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=21656

the native windows implementation of WebDAV only use an SSLv2 Hello message, and will only negotiate up to TLSv1.0. If you have disabled TLSv1.0 and only using TLSv1.1+ on your server you will get issues like described above.

System error 1244 has occurred

gjacobse

I'm not sure if I had heard of ownCloud previously but am curious. Searching shows a .ORG and .COM.

From @scottalanmiller comment, it appears to be .COM - though I see it's an openSource project.

How would something like this compare to using SharePoint? Or would it sit side by side?

coliver

@g.jacobse The .com is their enterprise version (although it does also link to the community version. The .org is the community version. It is mostly a dropbox replacement type of program. For the most part you have a client and it syncs files to the server. The nice part is that this is hosted on your own network so no files are being stored in an outside cloud.

I was thinking of two different use cases.

Replacement for home folders and collaboration folders. Instead of having those CIFS mounted you could have a client sync your home folder back and forth. If this server is available on the WAN or via a VPN it would sync no matter where they were.
FTP replacement, this program would make it much easier to share files with customers. We are currently running into some of the limitations of FTP and I am investigating solutions to resolve that.

I don't think it is comparable per say to Sharepoint as there is no sites or collaboration suite built into ownCloud.

Dashrender

Just wondering, why do you want to replace the CIFS mounts?

coliver

@Dashrender Not that I want to get rid of the CIFS shares. I just see added functionality when related to things like the web interface and sync client.

I've had request from a couple of remote people to use something like dropbox, although since I've implemented a VPN those requests are now non-existent.

scottalanmiller

@g.jacobse said:

I'm not sure if I had heard of ownCloud previously but am curious. Searching shows a .ORG and .COM.

From @scottalanmiller comment, it appears to be .COM - though I see it's an openSource project.

How would something like this compare to using SharePoint? Or would it sit side by side?

ownCloud is open source and available commercially hosted by the oem. They are here in MangoLassi too @kelleybrooks

It's not SharePoint, that's an application platform. ownCloud is a cloud storage system, a la DropBox or OneDrive.