#Owncloud in a box how to#
#Owncloud in a box install#
#Owncloud in a box android#
#Owncloud in a box password#

#Owncloud in a box android#

A better alternative might be FolderSync, an excellent application that let’s you synchronize files on your Android phone with Owncloud.

If you are using an Android phone, there’s an official Android client as well, but it’s not exactly getting great reviews.

#Owncloud in a box install#

To sync files to and from Owncloud, simply download and install one of the sync clients. Warning: The factory default reboot process resets the storage system to factory settings, erases all data, resets all defaults, and reformats the disk to X-RAID2. Please note the following, however, copied from NETGEAR’s factory reset instructions:

#Owncloud in a box how to#

It’s not necessary to do a factory reset to get everything to work, but you’re having problems and you want to do the same, have a look here for instructions on how to perform a factory reset. I did everything described above after having performed a factory reset of the NAS. If you have the same problem, you simply have to use another browser to log in.Īnd there you have it, your very own, private cloud storage service. This is unbelievably frustrating, but so far I’ve not been able to solve it. Note: After the Owncloud installation wizard completes, I’m not able to log on with Firefox, for some strange reason. Go to (replace the IP address with the IP address of your own ReadyNAS unit) and follow the simple installation process.

When the installation process eventually finishes, the last step is to log in to Owncloud.

This will install a bunch of packages and might take a while depending on your internet connection.

Install Owncloud with the following command: apt-get install owncloud.

#Owncloud in a box password#

Log in as root using the same password as the admin account you used to log in to the web site in the previous step.

The next step is to connect to the NAS device using SSH.

Personally, I’ve turned off everything except for HTTP, HTTPS and SSH, but if you are using any of the other enabled services, you should of course keep them enabled. Log in to the ReadyNAS administration web site with your admin account, go to System -> Settings, and enable SSH.

First we have to configure the NAS unit to accept SSH connections if you haven’t done this already.

I’m assuming that you’ve completed all the steps required to configure your ReadyNAS unit and that it’s connected to your LAN, and that you have installed the latest version of the firmware. The only prerequisite is that your ReadyNAS device has version 6 of the firmware installed.

The tutorial below has been tested on a NETGEAR ReadyNAS 102 and a NETGEAR ReadyNAS 312, and it’s very likely that you can follow this guide to accomplish exactly the same on other ReadyNAS versions as well. In this entry, I’ll cover how you connect to your ReadyNAS device over SSH with root privileges, how you install and configure Owncloud and you set up your Android device to synchronize files with your new Owncloud account. But to really get things running, you’ll have to tinker a little bit more with the NAS box. In the previous entry in the PRISM Break series, I looked at how to set up a NETGEAR ReadyNAS 102 as a basic replacement for your current, commercial, privacy-repellant, cloud storage needs. I recommend that you install Nextcloud instead, and you can follow this simple step-by-step guide that explains how it’s done. OwnCloud accounts are established at the request of the responsible faculty or staff member and are initiated by emailing A descriptive one word name for the site should accompany the request.Please note that this guide will install a very old version of ownCloud. You will not be able to log in without an account set up by DECS. OwnCloud replaces WebFE for file collaboration in the engineering environment.Īn example of OwnCloud's function would be a collaboration effort between engineering users and people without engineering accounts, such as a ME or ECE design team sharing files with their team sponsor, or a piece of collaborative research between a MSU engineering research lab and another university.ĭECS OwnCloud instance is located at.

OwnCloud provides some of the functionality of DropBox while maintaining your data on EGR servers. OwnCloud is a file collaboration tool provided by DECS to allow groups to exchange files over the Internet without all members having engineering accounts.