Hello,
I have been at this for seems like forever. All I want to do is store my test step files in a nextcloud folder. Then on local machines, the program running the tests can look in one shared folder via the linked/mapped/shared folder on nextcloud, load the test step file and run the test. Like an external drive attached to the PC’s. BUT I can find no mention, no hint of how to create a simple little shared folder to the nextcloud folder. I have posted in forum with no luck. This seems like a very simple task to accomplish, but the manuals are insanely confusing and again, no mention of just added a mapped/shared whatever folder to a desktop pointed at the cloud folder.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been messing with this for far too long and no results. I am new to Nextcloud and I know that is a majority of the proble, but its a simple thing to setup on any system I’ve ever used before, Sun sparcs, HPUX, SGI Irix etc.
Thank You
Nextcloud uses webdav to share files and has its own sync client. You can run a sync client on the pc and on the local machines (depending on the os and such) run the nextcloud client to get the sync files. One other option is to have an nfs share that the clients mounts and then use external_files in nextcloud to mount that same nfs share. Whats put in that external files folder would then be on the other clients
Hello,
First thank you for the reply. I’ve been pounding my head into the wall trying to make sense of this.
Would what you suggested using webdav sync client work in real time? So the program I’m using for testing could look in a standard “folder” load the test step information and run as normal? Or would I need to down load each file as it were being used for the testing? A better way to phrase that would be will it look and act like a folder on my local machine(s)?
Second, any sync clients you would recommend? I run windows 10 at work, Could I install a webdav app and use that? I’ve trid the setup for webdav as described on a couple websites regarding Nextcloud and I always end up with an error about some piece of the system isnt functioning now.
Agin thank you so much for the reply. Its been a long time trying to get any info about this and yours is the first reply I’ve seen.
Thank You, Toby
If you run windows 10 you can use the nextcloud synk client on each machine. Create a service account for them. And when you share a file or a folder to that service account or user account it would be synced to that client.
your windows 10 ↔ sync client ↔ nextcloud server ↔ sync client ↔ tester windows 10
you put a file in your folder that would sync quite quickly over to the server and then be visible on the test client (with the right setup changes will be pushed to that client )