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This is not an issue with box-linux-sync, but rather with how davfs (possible webdav?) handles (or doesn't handle) special characters in passwords and how the characters get encoded/passed over https.

My password has a special character in it. This caused mounting to fail:

/sbin/mount.davfs: Mounting failed.
Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge
Failed to mount sync dir.

So, I don't expect any resolution in this project... but I wasn't sure how else to communicate the situation.

Perhaps this issue could be resolved by updating the README to indicate this restriction.

When it appears:

• Box mount point is missing. Please add this line to your /etc/fstab:
  $ sudo echo "https://www.box.com/dav /home/gjc/Box davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
  22-08-2012 15:24:38

It should be:

sudo sh -c 'echo "https://www.box.com/dav /home/gjc/Box davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab'

I.e., the >> redirection has to be part of the command run by sudo, in order for it to work.

First off, thanks for box-linux-sync! I just found it and it seems to run nicely on Debian/Stretch.

A minor issue that I encountered: Running ./box-sync check triggered the warning

• Please set 'use_locks 0' in /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf

for me, in spite of the option being set to 0 already in the config file.

Thanks for making this tool - the instructions and setup were very clear.

Since I use Box under my employer's enterprise account, our entire set of files would be synced to ~/Box. That's going to be several gigabytes of files - no good!

Is there a way to filter which subfolders are synced locally? For example, a setting in ~/.noiselabs/box/box-sync.cfg to only sync ~/Box/fee/ and ~/Box/foo/ ?

Hello,

on Centos 6.5 installed davfs2 and ./box-sync check gives error about davfs2 not installed, checked source and found bug in setup.py on line 62

for davfs_file in ['/usr/sbin/mount.davfs', '/sbin/umount.davfs', '/etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf']:

should be

for davfs_file in ['/sbin/mount.davfs', '/sbin/umount.davfs', '/etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf']:

fixed in file and check run smootly.

I just did a git clone, then CD into the bin directory, and ran ./box-sync check

This is the error I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./box-sync", line 47, in
from noiselabs.box.main import box_main
ImportError: No module named 'noiselabs'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./box-sync", line 51, in
from noiselabs.box.main import box_main
File "/home/user/box-linux-sync/src/noiselabs/init.py", line 22, in
import('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(name)
ImportError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

Any ideas? Could it be because of a python version mismatch?

I need to know when syncing has finished before going off line.
Is there any way to query this?

Hi,

Getting the following error post cloning from Git on Ubuntu 16.04

./box-sync setup
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./box-sync", line 51, in
from noiselabs.box.main import box_main
File "/home/ganesh/box-linux-sync/src/noiselabs/init.py", line 22, in
import('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(name)
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

Regards

Sorry to bother you again, but I seem to be missing something. After the davfs folder is mounted, where does it sync to? The only thing I've seen in the configuration is which folder gets mounted. In the logs, all I see is the folder being mounted and unmounted. How do I set up the actual syncing?

I get the following error and another error that says, "Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge". Failed to mount sync dir.

While running box-sync setup we should set SUID bit to mount.davfs allowing regular usage of box-sync without requiring root privileges:

sudo chmod u+s /sbin/mount.davfs

This change should fix #2

The endpoint started to return 502: Bad gateway. Details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/wut8f6/boxcom_webdav/

I guess this is more a request than an issue..

My employer uses Box, but has it linked to our internal authentication system, meaning we use our intranet logon to access it and its therefore not available outside the corporate network.

The flow is ---> Go to https://company.app.box.com --> Log in with credentials --> Access files

I (obviously I guess) can use this tool to sync with my box because of this, as it tries to authenticate towards regular Box.com.. Any chance of adding that as a feature ?

I'm on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 and I put /.davfs2/box-linux-sync/bin/box-sync start as an entry in Gnome's startup application preferences. However, it gives an error.

I think it's because when I enter /.davfs2/box-linux-sync/bin/box-sync start normally in terminal, it still asks for my password:
Please enter the password to authenticate user [email protected] with server https://dav.box.com/dav or hit enter for none.

I've put in my e-mail and password in ./davfs2/secrets -- box sync appears to be pulling at least my e-mail, so why not the password?

Let me know if there's any way to fix this.

Many thanks,
Kevin

Could you tag your releases and make the changelog directly visible in your GitHub releases? This would increase transparency for potential users and distribution maintainers. Something like https://skywinder.github.io/github-changelog-generator/ could be used to generate the changelog based on merged PRs and closed issues since the last release tag.

for this to work you need to install davfs2, pleas add this to README files....

I setup box-linux-sync and got it to work. I cannot write anything to it even with sudo. Now I suspect this is because it was installed as root.

drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   144 Aug 26 14:07 Box/

I am considering changing permission of the whole directory structure to recursively to the active user name. But I can't get the sync to stop. It always returns 'target is busy'.

user@system:~$ sudo ~/box-linux-sync/bin/box-sync stop
umount: /home/user/Box: target is busy.
Failed to unmount sync dir.

I also constantly keep getting this pop-up for authentication which I suspect happens whenever box-sync does something.

Running 0.1.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.

So i tried out the client , didnt fancy it, got rid of it. But i still have this lingering "Box" option under devices, how do i get rid of this?

(Using linux mint)

Hi,

André here.

Setup went well, but cant run as nomal user. i'v installed davfs2 setup username and pass in ./davfs2/secrets
setup correct path to box folder in etc/fstab

NOTE: www.box.net should be www.box.com

try to start box sync...
~/BOX-SYNC/bin$ ./box-sync start
/sbin/mount.davfs: program is not setuid root. Failed to mount sync dir.

as root maybe..
~/BOX-SYNC/bin$ gksu ./box-sync start
mount: can't find /root/Box in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Failed to mount sync dir.

so what should i do?

One issue I notice that I cannot make symbolic links to the Box folder. If I turn off WebDAV, is it possible to implement this? The files I want to sync are in widely different folders, and to create a copy of them on the same hard disk would defeat the purpose. Symlinks work excellently with clients for other services.

When organizations use box, the login credentials can be managed by the institution, through a redirect (see https://app.box.com/login/sso)

Is there a way to support this use case, or do the underlying differences in authentication for each org make this a non-starter?