Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud

Tim Watts · 2015-03-04T13:14:56+00:00

I have raised this before... And tried some stuff. And I cannot believe there is no solution... hence the first part of the subject. The problem: "How do I make an existing linux file server be a private cloud file server, targeting other linux, ChromeBooks and Android clients?" There is a LOT of stuff that misses out of critical features - or those features need a paid-for version that costs $1700-9000 per year. I've played with Tonido and OwnCloud so far. Obvious omissions in the free versions: a Limited shares (OwnCloud only seems to support 1 exported directory - I have lots); b (Serious) Do not integrate with POSIX users. The idea is the file sharing should integrate with linux, not try and take over. I did look at OpenAFS but there's no Android client. SFTP so far offers the simplest solution but I can find no nice clients that offer local copies (caching) so it is still somewhat half arsed. And i suspect the basic nature of the protocol is it would be hard work to make caching multiple client copies work. OK - allowing for the fact that "I could write it myself dammit" (actually, no, I don't have that type of coding skill) I'm very surprised such a killer app is missing from the opensource stable. This is the same opensource that brought us *BSD, Linux, perl, python, 2 super RDBMSs, top rate image editing, rock solid *connected* fileservices (NFS, SMB) allowing for the fact the latter had to be reverse engineered. Have all the creative types died?

Mar 04, 2015 122 Replies

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John Rumm 11 years ago

I will tack this here since I have not read the thread yet, and may just be repeating what is elsewhere.

Have you looked at the Netgear ReadyNAS with cloud integration? That basically does what you describe where the cloud storage is your nas device, and remote access to it is possible via the web. The only bit I am not sure about is specific clients for the mobile OSes.

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John Rumm 11 years ago

I use ES File Manager. That also has no difficulty browsing NAS volumes etc via SMB/CIFS

To be fair I have not tried that with mine (the phone is old and slow!)

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The Real Doctor 11 years ago

I use that too. It works very nicely, and can see both SMB/CIFS and NFS shares.

Ian

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