Authors: John Lövrot, Max Gordon
KI Box uses the online file sharing and personal cloud content management service by Box.
Box doesn't provide a Linux client.
- "We will not be building a linux client in the near future. Our analysis shows the most business and enterprise users do not have a linux based operating system."
https://support.box.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200507738 - See also discussion on
https://support.box.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200285208-Linux-Client
There is an unofficial attempt to create a Linux synchronization client:
An alternative is to use a WebDAV client, see
Login, https://ki.box.com.
Go to account settings, https://ki.app.box.com/settings and the section "Create External Password".
Based on the blog posts
- http://aarongriffith.net/2014/08/mount-box-cloud-storage-in-ubuntu/
- https://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/03/automatically-mount-box-cloud-storage-in-ubuntu-12-04-11-10/
First, install the davfs2 package:
sudo apt-get install davfs2
Next, reconfigure davfs2 so that regular users can mount storages:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2
When prompted, answer "Yes".
Add your username to davfs2:
sudo usermod -a -G davfs2 <username>
Copy the davfs2 contents to your home directory and grant permissions:
sudo cp -R /etc/davfs2/ /home/<username>/.davfs2
sudo chown -R <username> /home/<username>/.davfs2/
Edit the secrets file
gedit ~/.davfs2/secrets
by adding the following line at the end of the file.
https://dav.box.com/dav <e-mail-address> <external_password>
Create a folder called Box in your home directory:
mkdir ~/Box
Edit the file system table
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
by adding the following line at the end of the file.
https://dav.box.com/dav /home/<username>/Box davfs _netdev,rw,user 0 0
Mount Box:
mount ~/Box