OwnCloud

alex.olynyk

Does anyone have a nice step by step procedure for Own Cloud they would be willing share? How to upload a file, how to share with an individual/group?

dafyre

Which Linux distro are you interested in?

JaredBusch

You are asking how to use ownCloud?

Just sign in to the web portal and click the upload button.

Need to share? Click the sharelink button.

alex.olynyk

Sorry, I already have it setup and running. Just need something simple for my users.

dafyre

Take screen shots from your own install showing them how. That would probably be the best bet.

Dashrender

@dafyre said:

Take screen shots from your own install showing them how. That would probably be the best bet.

He doesn't want to spend the time, clearly he wants someone's elses. I would think instructions like this would exist on OwnClouds own FAQ or instructions. You might have to pull them out piece by piece, but I would expect them to be there.

JaredBusch

The product is ownCloud

Not Own Cloud or OwnCloud.

alex.olynyk

Thanks guys. I see no way of adding a users e-mail address to their account. How can I notify them that a file has been shared with them?

scottalanmiller

@alex.olynyk said:

Thanks guys. I see no way of adding a users e-mail address to their account. How can I notify them that a file has been shared with them?

There is a way, that's how it is supposed to work. The system has to do the notifications via email itself.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

@alex.olynyk said:

Thanks guys. I see no way of adding a users e-mail address to their account. How can I notify them that a file has been shared with them?

There is a way, that's how it is supposed to work. The system has to do the notifications via email itself.

Actually, there is not. It is a huge failing from an admin point of view.

Users have to set their email address themselves.

The only way for an admin to do it is via the MySQL/MariaDB command line directly.

I guess one could write a script to do it.

JaredBusch

@alex.olynyk said:

Thanks guys. I see no way of adding a users e-mail address to their account. How can I notify them that a file has been shared with them?

Notification settings are also a user configuraiton piece.

alex.olynyk

@JaredBusch said:

@alex.olynyk said:

Thanks guys. I see no way of adding a users e-mail address to their account. How can I notify them that a file has been shared with them?

Notification settings are also a user configuration piece.

So the user sets up their e-mail address upon their first login to ownCloud?

alex.olynyk

Here is the message I get when I try e-mailing myself.
Does my config look correct?

JaredBusch

@alex.olynyk said:

@JaredBusch said:

@alex.olynyk said:

Thanks guys. I see no way of adding a users e-mail address to their account. How can I notify them that a file has been shared with them?

Notification settings are also a user configuration piece.

So the user sets up their e-mail address upon their first login to ownCloud?

Unfortunately, no. There is nothing that makes a user go to the settings screen and add an email address.

Edit: This is in regards to the self hosted solution. I have no experience with what their paid hosted solution does.

JaredBusch

@alex.olynyk said:

Here is the message I get when I try e-mailing myself.
Does my config look correct?

Have you conrrectly configured your ownCLoud server to send email?

https://doc.owncloud.org/server/6.0/admin_manual/configuration/configuration_mail.html

JaredBusch

did you add that second image while i was posting? I did not see it the first time i read the message

alex.olynyk

Which Log file in CentOS can I look at to find out why I cant e-mail?

scottalanmiller

/var/log/messages
/var/log/maillog

scottalanmiller

But, I thought that you were emailing from another server, not from the one that you are on.

alex.olynyk

@scottalanmiller I am. Our e-mail server is hosted.