Zimbra Drive, Anyone?
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Anybody using the new "Drive" feature of Zimbra?
If you saw a previous post of mine, you might know I'm in the process of testing upgrading from Zimbra 8.6.0 to 8.8.6. The testing went well, there was just one piece left...test out this new "Drive" feature.
I was very excited when I learned about the integration with ownCloud/nextCloud via "Zimbra Drive".
We are currently using (the crap out of) ownCloud (will likely migrate to nextCloud in the near future, but that's not important for this discussion) so this feature intrigued me. However, either it was a huge let-down, I did something wrong, or my expectations were too high.
I stood up a test ownCloud server along side my test Zimbra server. Set up the integration piece. Ok, sweet! I logged into the Zimbra web UI, started playing around with "Drive" and became disappointed very quickly.
It seems like it's basically their "Briefcase" feature except the back-end storage is own/nextCloud, and with even less features! In Briefcase I can at least share folders with other Zimbra users. I can't do any sharing what-so-ever (unless I'm missing something) in Drive. You need to log into the own/nextCloud web UI to do any sort of sharing. I was hoping for at least the ability to share with other Zimbra accounts, but nope.
Also, our production own/nextCloud deployment is integrated with Active Directory. This one is not Zimbra's fault and might...maybe...be fixable. The issue is that the account that is created through the Zimbra integration is not associated with account that is created via LDAP authentication.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I just don't see the value in this feature at its current state.
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We use it the other way. We mount Zimbra inside NextCloud.
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@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
We use it the other way. We mount Zimbra inside NextCloud.
Oh? This sounds interesting. How does one set this up?
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@anthonyh said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
We use it the other way. We mount Zimbra inside NextCloud.
Oh? This sounds interesting. How does one set this up?
Zimbra is connected via IMAP in the email app on NC.
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@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
@anthonyh said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
We use it the other way. We mount Zimbra inside NextCloud.
Oh? This sounds interesting. How does one set this up?
Zimbra is connected via IMAP in the email app on NC.
Well that's simple enough.
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@anthonyh said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
@anthonyh said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Drive, Anyone?:
We use it the other way. We mount Zimbra inside NextCloud.
Oh? This sounds interesting. How does one set this up?
Zimbra is connected via IMAP in the email app on NC.
Well that's simple enough.
Yeah. Works okay. My wife likes working that way.
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I have not used it, I disabled it on my recent install.
