Using fritzbox NAS as external storage

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Dear all,
I want to use the fritzbox NAS as a external storage with ftps in my nc. I can access the fritzbox NAS over a normal ftp application, but when it’s coming to the nc, the nc always fails. Using not secure ftp is going very well. I think it is a problem with the self-signed certificate from the fritz box. Is there a way to import the self-signed certificate into the nc. In the docu there is only a link to an article from 2014.

I hope you can help me:)
Joshua

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Not directly related with Nextcloud. Check how to import ssl certs on an linux host to establish trusted connections. The web is full of content about this.

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on all other linux machine there is a possibility to trust it, only the nc there isn’t

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A one minute ddg search brought this up:

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/14/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage_configuration_gui.html

Have you read this page? Please do and see sections about ftp and self signed certs.

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Yeah, I have read the page and http://ownclouden.blogspot.com/2014/11/owncloud-https-external-mount.html this too. The problem is, that in the nc14 there isn’t such an setting.

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Just opened my NC 14.0.4 and enabled app for you.

Here is what it looks like:

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471940×850 78.8 KB

So all settings are there described on mentioned page.

You did not included your environment information and nextcloud version.

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Sorry for not mentioning the version. I use nc 14.04 on apache2 with mariadb on a raspberrypi with raspian.
I see you choose sftp. Is it not a complete different protocol to ftps?

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is there really no solution for this problem?

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Did anybody get this to work? Using Fritzbox attached USB drive as external storage in Nextcloud?

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For those who have still the same problem: I finally find a solution:

Just import the certificate from the fritzbox into linux (If you installed Nextcloud e.g. on a vServer like i did)

  1. Copy your CA to “dir /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/”
    1.1 Use command: “sudo cp foo.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/foo.crt”
  2. Update the CA store: “sudo update-ca-certificates”

EDIT:

Yeah so you can add the external storage now, but as soon as I want to connect to it, it seems that the FTP-Server of the fritzbox is crashing, because I cant connect for a few seconds from whatever device i try