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NextCloud

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Needed a replacement for ownCloud that has been in use since 2013 due to not supporting newer PHP versions, this became NextCloud.

ownCloud was only used as an alternative to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to have some files sync over multiple devices and photos taken on a mobile phone were uploaded so there is no need for much storage on the phone itself. It also had plugins to make it do more but never used them.

Due to in current time and location there is a lot of discussion to get away from ‘big tech’, or maybe more ‘American’ companies NextCloud came up more than once. So, lets give it a go and see if it can be a for me ‘free’ alternative to either of the above.

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ownCloud vs Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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owncloudHad issues getting the ownCloud client to work after doing an inplace upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04LTS. Read various other articles that didn’t really help me. Most did point to the official ownCloud repository and in there is a file called install.sh, looking at that this would do all the tasks required to get the repository working and install the ownCloud client as well. After doing this, without uninstalling the current non working client, it was working. The only thing was that I had to disable and enable the “Launch on Startup” option and it was done. It is safe to say that the client in Ubuntu’s own repository will also get updated at some point in time and it becomes a non issue. Below are the steps performed.

  • Download the install.sh file via a webbrowser (you can of course use wget as well): https://download.owncloud.com/desktop/ownCloud/stable/latest/linux/Ubuntu_22.04/INSTALL.sh
  • Open the terminal and executed the following command in the folder where the INSTALL.sh file was downloaded): sudo sh .\INSTALL.sh
  • Start the ownCloud client
  • Disable and Enable the “Launch on Startup” setting on the Settings tab.

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LDAP import on Blue-Mind 2.0.8

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LDAP import into Blue-Mind 2.0.8 on Ubuntu 12.04LTS and maybe other Debian based installs as well.

Did an out of the box install of Blue-Mind 2.0.8 on a server to start investigating if Blue-Mind could replace my current Exchange Server install as it had the basics which are calendaring and activesync support for mobile devices, but found out that it couldn’t do the ldap-import according the instructions found here.

Blue Mind

It seems that the package website can be browsed as a directory so I went looking for the plugin name as that was mentioned on their community pages.

So, if you want to do LDAP imports on your Ubuntu 12.04LTS server within Blue-Mind you can do so with the following two commands:

wget “http://pkg.blue-mind.net/2.0.8/precise/main/bm-plugin-core-ldap-import_2.0.9987_amd64.deb”
dpkg -i bm-plugin-core-ldap-import_2.0.9987_amd64.deb

You will need to use sudo of course and then restart Blue-Mind, after which you now have the “Directories” tab added as shown in the Blue-Mind knowledge base article mentioned above. However how to add it was missing in the knowledge base, or at least I never found it. Also it might be possible that it does install if you run OpenLDAP on the same server which was not so in my case. Hope this might help you out if you are struggling with the same issue.

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First Post on the new Blog

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A continuation from the previous Windows Sharepoint Services based blog. Which I wanted to migrate for a long period to Sharepoint Foundation 2010, however the ending of Technet subscriptions forced me in looking for other alternatives that do not expire every three months to half a year or cost a fortune to maintain. I did use Technet mostly for testing but also the services that you see on the outside where build on the subscription. All of these will slowly but surely be moved to Open Source for most of the functionality used by myself and members of the family. As at writing I’m still mostly a Windows System Engineer the majority of the hardware resources in use will still be dedicated for prototyping solutions based on a diversity of software coming from Redmond, however the more continues parts of the deal are now Linux based. I doubt that Microsoft will revise the policies around Technet as it was used for pirating a lot. However since I don’t have much time to test things within the time limits that Microsoft set, there is a small penalty which currently relates directly back to my work. Or I’ll simply introduce the solutions which I now build privately to work………… Anyway I hope to make same more contributions over time compared to last few years and see if I can move over all the old entries that are currently still in the Windows Sharepoint Services Portal while retaining their metadata.

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ownCloud, resolve your Dropbox issue

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owncloudSomehow I doubt that, but it will be the next experiment. Clients for Linux, MacOSX and Windows but also Android and iOS. The mobile ones are paid, currently going for € 0.79. For an experiment this is still affordable :-).

The features seem impressive, so lets give it a go. A dropbox clone that comes at 79 cents for the Android bit with storage limits that I can set myself is always welcome….. Bye bye dropbox or better yet, include it in ownCloud which seem to be a possibility.