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Yann_Lehmann
Apr '21

Hi Gabriele

Have you tried a Webdav client in Windows (other than the integrated one) ?

Mountain Duck allows you to mount and map Webdav-locations (and lots of other “cloud storage”) in the Windows explorer. Then you can open, save and close files as if they were accessed over smb (I never had to deal with files in the 300-400 mb range though). You can test it 30 days for free (€ 35 per user afterwards).

Raidrive is a similar product, which is free upon to 8 mounted locations (iirw).

With both clients, it is also possible to mount a folder shared in EGroupware without beeing a EGroupware user. You can mount “shared links” (password protected in the EPL-version of EGroupware, if needed). This is very convenient with external users.

ATSrl
Apr '21

Thanks Ralf,
I’ll try.
However, following yours and Stefan’s instructions, we succeeded in mounting the NAS and we are now trying to organise the folders in such a way that all administrative information are stored in the VFS while, through the NAS mount, the user can add or delete technical files too. Technical files are stored in a VFS sub-directory that is actually link to the correspondent NAS subfolder. So, for example, the subdirectory drawingxxx exists in the VFS and in the external NAS with the same name.
The use of the data files with technical software, the access is made directly via the external NAS.
Everything seems to work. I’m doing the final tests.
Thanks again
Gabriele

StefanUEGroupware GmbH
Apr '21

That already sounds good.
Please report back to us later. This is a nice example of how EGroupware file management and external file servers can be combined.

Stefan

ATSrl
Apr '21

Hi Stefan,
definitely. As soon as the tests we are carrying out will be finished we will let you know. In the meantime, thank you for your help.
Gabriel

3 months later
ATSrl
Jul '21
1

Hi everyone,
as reported in previous posts we are trying to mount a filesystem on a NAS in order to have such a structure in the VFS:
2021-00xx Name of the project
Sub-Directory 01 (VFS)
Sub-Directory 02 (VFS)
Sub-Directory 03 (NAS) via a VFS link to /NAS/2021-00xx Name of the project.
So we would like to mount the NAS filesystem under the name NFS in the VFS directory “/”. We are encountering some problems in this process.
Problem 01 - we are unable to mount the NAS file system in the “/” directory but only in the /Backup directory. The image shows the result:
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Problem 02 - As you can see from the image, all files have protection d----r-x—which cannot be modified via VFS. If the NAS is mounted with a local NAS user using the command

sudo docker exec -it egroupware /usr/share/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password ‘myrootpassword’ smb://admin:mynaspassword@nas/share/egroupware/filemanager/cli

the mount is performed but the NAS seems to be read only for VFS
We use active directory for authentication to NAS and EGW, so we should mount NAS with a domain user in order to have it in RW for users present and enabled in active directory.
Using the domain account to mount the script

sudo docker exec -it egroupware /usr/share/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password ‘myrootpassword’ smb://egroupware@mydomain.local:mypassword@nas/share/egroupware/filemanager/cli

After entering the user’s password egroupware@mydomain.local returns the error “permission denied are you root?”, even if the account egroupware@mydomain.local has been added to the egroupware root accounts via the setup panel
The question is: how can you mount a share that resides on the NAS where the users are managed by active directory and therefore are domain users and not local?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Gabriele

9 days later
ATSrl
Jul '21

Hi All,
no news on this post. I think it would be important for all users to have the possibility to link and use with the same users (and not with a local user of the NAS) of EGW an external NAS !!!
Is there a solution?
Every contribution is welcome
Gabriele

RalfBeckerEGroupware GmbH
Jul '21

Having the root directory, home-director or /apps on a NAS (or any other non-EGroupware filesystem) is NOT supported! Reason is that EGroupware need control over the permissions.

If both EGroupware and your SMB fileserver/NAS use the same Active Directory, EGroupware can pass it’s credentials along:

docker exec -it egroupware bash
cd /usr/share/egroupware
filemanger/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password 'secret' 'smb://$user:$password@host/share' /mountpoint

The single quote (or other proper quoting) are essential!

Ralf

ATSrl
Jul '21

Hi Ralf
we are using this instruction

sudo docker exec -it 266522d0ccf7 bash cd usr/share/egroupware/ filemanger/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password ‘xxxxxxxxx’ ‘smb://$user:$password@nas/Work’ /var/lib/egroupware/default/backup/Work

but it returns the error: bash: cd: No such file or directory

if I connect to the container 266522d0ccf7 the path usr/share/egroupware exists, I also tried to delete the slash /usr/share/egroupware and usr/share/egroupware/ but the result does not change.
What’s wrong with the command I run?
Thanks for your help
Gabriele

StefanUEGroupware GmbH
Jul '21

Please take a look here:

You directly rust a script over a complete path. You don’t need to/shouldn’t make a directory change.

Stefan

ATSrl
Jul '21

Hi Stefan and Ralf
a successful but partial step!!! I followed your suggestions and things are going a bit better. I have done mount as indicated with this command:

sudo docker exec -it egroupware /usr/share/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password ‘xxxxxxxxx’ ‘smb://$user:$password@nas/Work /var/lib/egroupware/default/Work’

this is the output

Root access granted!
sqlfs://$host/ /
links://$host/apps /apps
filesystem://default/var/lib/egroupware/default/backup?group=Admins&mode=070 /backup
atsrl@egroupware:~$

but I don’t see the mount using VFS. I also tried to execute the command changing the mount point:

sudo docker exec -it egroupware /usr/share/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password ‘#In)EOtxRPIW[8[S’ ‘smb://$user:$password@nas/Work /var/lib/egroupware/default/Work’

sudo docker exec -it egroupware /usr/share/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password ‘xxxxxxxxx’ ‘smb://$user:$password@nas/Work /Work’

Same result

The directory /var/lib/egroupware/default/Work exists! I think the mount point should be created from the panel

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So I tried to create the access point. Once I entered the root credentials and typed the mount name /Work does not allow saving. Where do I am wrong?
Thank you for your help
Gabriele

RalfBeckerEGroupware GmbH
Jul '21

You need to mount in the VFS not the physical file system!

Use eg. /Work as mount-point.

Ralf

3 months later
ATSrl
Oct '21
1

Hi All,
I am still here. Thanks to the new user-interface to mount WebDAV or SMB shares our nas is now visible and within the VFS.
But now there is a problem. I am unable to create a link to a directory on the nas. The picture shows the structure of our nas (one part) where each project has a directory.

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The idea was to add, within each project in EGW, a link to the corresponding project in nas. In this way, users can access the files contained in the project with programs that want direct access (e.g. Autocad) and from EGW for normal access.
So I have created the nas directory Test with the file file.docx inside as shown in the image. The file is correctly visible from the nas.
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Within a project in project manager I have so created a link to /nas/test. When I try to access it:
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The link in this case doesn’t apply?
Gabriele

RalfBeckerEGroupware GmbH
Oct '21

Only obvious problem is the different case of /nas/Test versus /nas/test.

EGroupware VFS is case-sensitive. Not sure you just mistyped it here in the forum, or also in the symlink.

Ralf

15 days later
ATSrl
Nov '21

Hi All,
No suggestions? Nobody has the same problem?
To me it would seem useful to link to a project the directory that resides on an external device directly from the project (e.g. right click VFS) and at the same time access the files with applications that cannot be used through EGW.
Gabriele

2 months later
SvenZ
Jan '22

Hi Gabriele,

I got the same problem. I mounted a NAS to EGW and have access to it by using the dara manager. However, when I link the nas to a project, I 'm not allowed to open the folders anymore and I’m getting the following error:
The requested path /apps/projectmanager/1/test is not available!
Have you found a solution to the problem?

Best regards
Sven

ATSrl
Jan '22

Hi SvenZ,
doesn’t seem to be anything new. I’m sad because it would allow a much more productive use of EGW. We are limited to the NAS mount, we can manage the files but we cannot create a link from a VFS folder to a specific NAS folder.
This feature would be extremely valuable, because you lose a lot of time, if you want an orderly management of projects, to encode them and then go and search in the NAS for the corresponding folder.
Probably not many users intend to use this feature, although it seems extremely important to me.
Let’s wait for
Gabriele

1 month later
ATSrl
Mar '22

Hi All,
Since April 2021 we have been trying hard to solve the problem of dual access to the NAS from EGW and directly from the file manager.
Currently it is possible to mount the NAS which works fine but it is not possible to establish a link between a NAS folder and an EGW VFS folder.
If this possibility existed, it would be possible to enter the NAS folder from EGW project with a simple enter and independently access the same folder from the windows file manager or an application (e.g. Autocad).
I can’t believe no one is interested in this feature. ?
Is it really not possible?
:weary::sob:
I hope someone has some useful information
Gabriele