Connecting to SkyDrive

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I have been using SkyDrive and am hoping to mount a webdav file system in openSUSE 12.1 KDE but I have not been able to figure out what the server address to use since the recent changes to SkyDrive.

It used to be the address was similar to \docs.live.net@SSL<long_id_number> but that isn’t working.

I know there is a sync program that doesn’t work with Linux and I have that running on my Windows 7 machine but I want to access the same files as a mounted (mapped) location in Linux.

Anybody have any luck? I know its changed recently so I hope it isn’t completely shut down.

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Hi
It looks like you can connect with davfs, have a read here;

You would need to install davfs fro the filesystems repository;
http://software.opensuse.org/package/davfs2?search_term=davfs

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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One problem I have is that SkyDrive includes a “?cid=” with a 16-character code. In some reference, at least for mapping in Windows, it shows this code being part of the server’s location, but that doesn’t work.

I have the 16 character code that denotes my account, but I don’t know how to put it into the parameters for the URL.

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Hi
Like https://xxxxxx.docs.live.net/<16 character code>

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I ran and got

Treant:/home/drew # mount -t davfs https://d.docs.live.net/7694c9624b22c8d9 /mnt/skydrive
Please enter the username to authenticate with server
https://d.docs.live.net/7694c9624b22c8d9 or hit enter for none.
  Username: <username>@live.com
Please enter the password to authenticate user <username>@live.com with server
https://d.docs.live.net/7694c9624b22c8d9 or hit enter for none.
  Password:  
/sbin/mount.davfs: Mounting failed.
302 Found

Based on the information I got from my successfully mapped drive on Windows 7.

Then I tried changing from “.net” to “.com” and got

Treant:/home/drew # Treant:/home/drew # mount -t davfs https://d.docs.live.com/7694c9624b22c8d9 /mnt/skydrive
Please enter the username to authenticate with server
https://d.docs.live.com/7694c9624b22c8d9 or hit enter for none.
  Username: <username>@live.com
Please enter the password to authenticate user <username>@live.com with server
https://d.docs.live.com/7694c9624b22c8d9 or hit enter for none.
  Password:  
/sbin/mount.davfs: connection timed out two times;
trying one last time
/sbin/mount.davfs: server temporarily unreachable;
mounting anyway
Treant:/home/drew #
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Hi
Looks like GNOME have it sorted…
http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-gains-microsoft-skydrive-support/

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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I used to have a Box.net account mounted through fstab, but found out I unfortunately removed it. This is what I remember from it

  • You have to add the local situation to /etc/davfs2/secrets, in the box.net case

LOCALPATH                   BOXUSERNAME                    USERPASSWORD
/home/knurpht/Box          EmailAddressUsedForBox       BoxPassWord

After that I added this line to fstab


https://www.box.net/dav   /home/knurpht/Box  davfs   defaults   0 0
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Awesome! Where can I get it?

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Hi
Awhile out yet only into GNOME 3.5 now… it is meant to be in 3.6.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.31-0.9-default
up 1 day 2:00, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.39, 0.31
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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Will openSUSE 12.2 include Gnome 3.6, or is it going to have to wait until 12.2+1?

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Hi
Not sure, it maybe offered in a STABLE repo during 12.2 like 3.4.
GNOME:Next is currently a work in progress.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.31-0.9-default
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GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 302.11

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On 2012-06-22 18:16, dragonbite wrote:
> Will openSUSE 12.2 include Gnome 3.6, or is it going to have to wait
> until 12.2+1?

12.2 is frozen, no new versions.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Hi
So I have owncloud running here as a test, I can connect to it in
nautilus via;


dav://<username>@<owncloudserver>/owncloud/remote.php/webdav

Maybe some similar syntax in Dolphin will work?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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up 17 days 21:02, 4 users, load average: 0.75, 0.64, 0.57
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I wonder if the recent changes to SkyDrive makes things better or worse? Unfortunately I don’t have a KDE distro installed anymore to try it out.