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@Dashrender said in Storage question:
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@coliver said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
@coliver said in Storage question:
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@Dashrender said in Storage question:
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@scottalanmiller said in Storage question:
Going to a Windows Fileserver will step you "backwards" to a different era. You'll change how people work, introduce new (old) risks and give up some huge flexibility for remote workers. That's fine if the benefits outweigh those losses. But... what benefits did you see pushing you to that solution?
As much as I want to agree with Scott on this - I simply can't. Using web only services for files sux at best, is horrible at worst.
If you can get something the directly integrates into your applications like SharePoint does with MS Office products, it can be fairly usable.
But the NextCloud folks have all but ignored this integration - you can read their responses yourself in the AMA we had here a few weeks ago.
Moving people completely off their local type access will take true dedication from management, the likes of which we rarely see.
Don't know what crack pipe you are smoking, but they clearly said during the AMA that they had no idea about that office integration, but agreed it was nice.
Not sure how that is ignoring.
That is ignoring it - they had no idea about it.
Not knowing about a feature of an application that they do not even work with is not ignoring.
On one hand I see what you are saying - but not being aware of a feature in an application for which many people would be using their product to store upon is definitely not good.
I.e. a general use of NC is to replace Windows Files shares, what do you store on Windows File shares? MS Office files. What uses MS Office files - oh yeah, MS Office.
So from my POV, they provided the sync client and called it a day. I suppose I can kinda give them a pass, the sync client assuming it works well makes working with MS Office probably pretty easy, things look like they are local files. Though I'm not sure how they deal with huge volumes where you don't want them synced, but only want remote access, like old school network shares.
WebDAV was specifically designed for the second scenario. The built in Windows 10 WebDav client is actually pretty decent, as in it works unlike the Windows 7 version.
If you're talking about using WebDAV to map a network drive, then the solution has already failed - that's no different than a typical network share. Of course, as you mentioned eariler (the only reason I keep bringing it up) it does allow for versioning, which offers some crypto protection, but still not as much as you get by directly integrating WebDAV into the apps themselves (which I'll admit is probably only a short lived advantage to end users in regards to protection).
That's fair. That's also kind of a moot point though, using a traditional file server also has this disadvantage among others.
Right, the entire crypto thing is a damned red herring.
Backups handle that, not the accessibility solution.
Backups is one solution to the crypto thing - but a pretty poor one. Sadly ultimately it might be the only one.
How is that a poor one? Crypot is going to hit everything you can access. When you connect to webdav, are you going to make your users log in every time? If not, then Windows will have knowledge and it can be accessed.
Backups are the only way to provide security from crypto, not the poorest solution.
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Word and Excell do not like weddav. They prompt for credentials each time and refuse to open.
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@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
Word and Excell do not like weddav. They prompt for credentials each time and refuse to open.
Is that from the mounted share or trying to directly access documents? Either way that is interesting, Sharepoint uses WebDAV as the protocol to access ODfB and OneDrive.
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@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
@coliver said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
@coliver said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
@scottalanmiller said in Storage question:
Going to a Windows Fileserver will step you "backwards" to a different era. You'll change how people work, introduce new (old) risks and give up some huge flexibility for remote workers. That's fine if the benefits outweigh those losses. But... what benefits did you see pushing you to that solution?
As much as I want to agree with Scott on this - I simply can't. Using web only services for files sux at best, is horrible at worst.
If you can get something the directly integrates into your applications like SharePoint does with MS Office products, it can be fairly usable.
But the NextCloud folks have all but ignored this integration - you can read their responses yourself in the AMA we had here a few weeks ago.
Moving people completely off their local type access will take true dedication from management, the likes of which we rarely see.
Don't know what crack pipe you are smoking, but they clearly said during the AMA that they had no idea about that office integration, but agreed it was nice.
Not sure how that is ignoring.
That is ignoring it - they had no idea about it.
Not knowing about a feature of an application that they do not even work with is not ignoring.
On one hand I see what you are saying - but not being aware of a feature in an application for which many people would be using their product to store upon is definitely not good.
I.e. a general use of NC is to replace Windows Files shares, what do you store on Windows File shares? MS Office files. What uses MS Office files - oh yeah, MS Office.
So from my POV, they provided the sync client and called it a day. I suppose I can kinda give them a pass, the sync client assuming it works well makes working with MS Office probably pretty easy, things look like they are local files. Though I'm not sure how they deal with huge volumes where you don't want them synced, but only want remote access, like old school network shares.
WebDAV was specifically designed for the second scenario. The built in Windows 10 WebDav client is actually pretty decent, as in it works unlike the Windows 7 version.
If you're talking about using WebDAV to map a network drive, then the solution has already failed - that's no different than a typical network share. Of course, as you mentioned eariler (the only reason I keep bringing it up) it does allow for versioning, which offers some crypto protection, but still not as much as you get by directly integrating WebDAV into the apps themselves (which I'll admit is probably only a short lived advantage to end users in regards to protection).
That's fair. That's also kind of a moot point though, using a traditional file server also has this disadvantage among others.
Right, the entire crypto thing is a damned red herring.
Backups handle that, not the accessibility solution.
Backups is one solution to the crypto thing - but a pretty poor one. Sadly ultimately it might be the only one.
How is that a poor one? Crypot is going to hit everything you can access. When you connect to webdav, are you going to make your users log in every time? If not, then Windows will have knowledge and it can be accessed.
Backups are the only way to provide security from crypto, not the poorest solution.
It's poor because unless you have a real time backup solution in place, it's not that, it's not real time... so you'll lose changes made since the last backup.
The versioning does help that go a long way!
And just because it's poor, doesn't mean it's not effective, it simply means it's not a great solution. A great solution would be one where you would lose nothing - i.e. real time backups, but the cost of that often outweighs its value.
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@stacksofplates said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
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@Dashrender said in Storage question:
Sharepoint has been integrated since at least Office 2013, if not Office 2010, so I don't consider that recent at all.
Sure all the other sync clients Box, DropBox, OD, ODfB (i.e. sharepoint), oC, NextCloud, etc are all similar sync clients, and they all suffer the same problems.
These solutions are not what Scott's talking about in this post
@scottalanmiller said in Storage question:
Going to a Windows Fileserver will step you "backwards" to a different era. You'll change how people work, introduce new (old) risks and give up some huge flexibility for remote workers. That's fine if the benefits outweigh those losses. But... what benefits did you see pushing you to that solution?
Now Scott mentions that introducing a Windows Fileserver will change the way people work - but no, not really. With the sync client those users work exactly the same as a Windows Fileserver - the files are considered local, or at least semi-local because the sync client syncs the files to a place on the system.
In fact introducing NextCloud WebDav or pure cloud would be the completely new introduction here. And if they use the sync client, there would be zero change from a user POV.
So assuming Scott is only talking about the new modern ways for filesharing, we have to limit ourselves to WebDav or browser interface.
JB - my comments were and continue to be about this, not about the sync client. That's definitely not modern and definitely has known issues.
Box and Dropbox also have Office integration.
I wonder - does it work through their sync client only though? or is it direct to the server, like it can be with Sharepoint?
The Box one now says works with any program. However, I can't try it since I don't have any Windows machines.
Interesting - So you have to be in the Box App to make that work - just like you have to be inside Word to use Sharepoint integration - OK Cool.
But as I already said - all of these direct access APIs are probably only a minor speed bump for hackers.. and they won't offer any long term protection...
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@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
Word and Excell do not like weddav. They prompt for credentials each time and refuse to open.
Cool, I didn't try this way specifically, but good to know it doesn't work, for knowledge sake.
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It works for me...
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@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
@brianlittlejohn said in Storage question:
It works for me...
not helpful. what works?
LOL exactly
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Assuming he's talking about WebDAV opening a file in Office 2013 or newer, direct to a URL - then my question is.. is there authentication required?
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@Dashrender said in Storage question:
Assuming he's talking about WebDAV opening a file in Office 2013 or newer, direct to a URL - then my question is.. is there authentication required?
How can there not be authentication required?
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@Dashrender said in Storage question:
Assuming he's talking about WebDAV opening a file in Office 2013 or newer, direct to a URL - then my question is.. is there authentication required?
Webdav... Yes, it asked for authentication if i opened the file through an office app, but just the first time. If i opened up by double clicking the file it didn't ask for anything. I'm running 2016 Office and Win 10.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
Assuming he's talking about WebDAV opening a file in Office 2013 or newer, direct to a URL - then my question is.. is there authentication required?
Webdav... Yes, it asked for authentication if i opened the file through an office app, but just the first time. If i opened up by double clicking the file it didn't ask for anything. I'm running 2016 Office and Win 10.
That is not how I did it. I pasted the webdav URL into windows explorer and gave it my creds. See you did a different thing. Look at me screenshot
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@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
@brianlittlejohn said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
Assuming he's talking about WebDAV opening a file in Office 2013 or newer, direct to a URL - then my question is.. is there authentication required?
Webdav... Yes, it asked for authentication if i opened the file through an office app, but just the first time. If i opened up by double clicking the file it didn't ask for anything. I'm running 2016 Office and Win 10.
That is not how I did it. I pasted the webdav URL into windows explorer and gave it my creds. See you did a different thing. Look at me screenshot
My bad... all your screenshots didn't load.
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Haven't read everything on this thread, but have one question. The OP says the problem with Dropbox is " (slow - downloading,uploadig - internet outage)."
If that's the only problem with the current solution, couldn't the answer be to improve the internet connection? That might not be the cheapest solution but I'd have thought it would be the most simple. I appreciate it might not be possible depending on the location.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Storage question:
@JaredBusch said in Storage question:
@brianlittlejohn said in Storage question:
@Dashrender said in Storage question:
Assuming he's talking about WebDAV opening a file in Office 2013 or newer, direct to a URL - then my question is.. is there authentication required?
Webdav... Yes, it asked for authentication if i opened the file through an office app, but just the first time. If i opened up by double clicking the file it didn't ask for anything. I'm running 2016 Office and Win 10.
That is not how I did it. I pasted the webdav URL into windows explorer and gave it my creds. See you did a different thing. Look at me screenshot
My bad... all your screenshots didn't load.
Just tried it your way, failed to open. same error. Could be permission issues on my desktop. I did not change any settings that were mentioned int he NC documents.
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What is stopping OP from creating a Nextcloud server and pointing to the internal IP, you guessed it internally? That should resolve any speed issues. Having a domain and SSL certification just makes the server more accessible, which is a positive. I don't see him mentioning WebDAV himself unless I missed that post.
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@wirestyle22 said in Storage question:
What is stopping OP from creating a Nextcloud server and pointing to the internal IP, you guessed it internally? That should resolve any speed issues. Having a domain and SSL certification just makes the server more accessible, which is a positive. I don't see him mentioning WebDAV himself unless I missed that post.
WebDAV, etc were all ways to try to provide a different solution.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Storage question:
Haven't read everything on this thread, but have one question. The OP says the problem with Dropbox is " (slow - downloading,uploadig - internet outage)."
If that's the only problem with the current solution, couldn't the answer be to improve the internet connection? That might not be the cheapest solution but I'd have thought it would be the most simple. I appreciate it might not be possible depending on the location.
Worth checking if nothing else.
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@Dashrender said in Storage question:
Assuming he's talking about WebDAV opening a file in Office 2013 or newer, direct to a URL - then my question is.. is there authentication required?
There would have to be. Unless it was just wide open.
