Owncloud Desktop Clients

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just.odd.dude
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Owncloud Desktop Clients

#1 Post by just.odd.dude »

ownCloud is a software system for what is commonly termed "file hosting". As such, ownCloud is very similar to the widely-used Dropbox, with the primary difference being that ownCloud is free and open-source, and thereby allowing anyone to install and operate it without charge on a private server, with no limits on storage space (except for hard disk capacity) or the number of connected clients.
http://owncloud.org/

Owncloud can easy store the settings in the program folder. I did not find any mentions about it on this site, so that perhaps this information will be useful to someone.

1. Download latest Desktop Clients setup for Windows from https://owncloud.org/install/
2. Extract NSIS setup. e.g. with UniExtract.
3. Delete $PLUGINSDIR folder.
4. You can run owncloud.exe with command line parametrs for using custom configuration directory.
owncloud.exe --confdir config
Saved encrypted password can be used only on the computer on which it was typed, and in this case you will have to type password for each new computer. But we can do next:
owncloud.exe --confdir config\%COMPUTERNAME%
Create bat file or add it to yours program launcher.
5. After run disable autostart in settings.

Program is not stealth. In the registry it create the following records:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\ownCloud
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QtProject
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ownCloud
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\ownCloud

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Midas
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Re: Owncloud Desktop Clients

#2 Post by Midas »

IMHO, OwnCloud client is a ready candidate for portabilization (I'd do it with yaP). But are there any simple and straightforward resources on how to set up the server side? :|

(Same applies to OpenVPN, for instance...)





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