I started using Nextcloud a month ago and love it! Besides my own projects and reference library, I'm hosting a client project file share for a distributed project team to pull together product release data (schematics, mechanical diagrams, bills of materials, test results, etc.). I'm running Nextcloud on an older dual-core HP media center with 8GB memory running FreeBSD 11, but I expect there will be only minor differences on Linux such as file paths. Performance is fine at least at my relatively low load levels (fwiw, Nextcloud says I should configure a caching tool for better performance).
Nextcloud stores files within its install directory by user with un-obfuscated file names. E.g. my files are under /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data/dale/...). I too intend one day to use LDAP for configuration, but mostly for demoing to potential clients rather than for any real need. I'm creating client login profiles with passwords, which works fine for my current needs. For me, LDAP would be useful to configure multiple applications with a single source of authentication. Feel free to email me on or off list if you have more questions. Regards, Dale --- Dale R. Scott Email: d...@dalescott.net Web: http://www.dalescott.net LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dalescott GitHub: https://github.com/dalers Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/u/userid-1567891 > -----Original Message----- > From: clug-talk [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf Of TekBudda > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 10:33 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: [clug-talk] NextCloud > > Hi All, > > I have posted on this before, but never could quite get to getting it > done because life gets n the way. Isn't that the truth? ;-) > > I think I am finally at a place where I can start working on this > project & get it going. Will likely be in pieces, so a little at a time. > > Based on suggestions, research, etc. I think I have finally settled on > NextCloud over OwnCloud & am still planning to install on a RHEL-type > server. I inherited my father-in-laws old desktop, which I think will > work for what I need it to do. It is 8 GB of RAM (might be late > dual/quad core or early i-series)& I plan to (as suggested) install a > hard drive in it & use that as a dedicated box for the cloud > environment. Will eventually set up the backup so that it goes to the > DNS-323 for an onsite backup, although this may change. I have also > though of setting this up offsite somewhere as well, but not sure where > I would do that & what the ramifications would be. I do also have an > external drive that I can use as backup & will layer that with a > portable external drive for some measure of offsite backup. As > suggested I am likely going for a more enterprise drive purely for reliance. > > My biggest question at this point, is where NextCloud saves it files on > the hard drive. Is there a particular location (i.e. > /home/username/???) where you can actually see the files (example: > document.ods), or does it obfuscate them somehow? I have tried the snap > install on my xubuntu box, but can never seem to find the files. > Basically I am thinking that if I had to evac my house & did not have a > cloud environment, I would still want to be able to access files > directly from my offsite external drive. > > Any other things I need to consider in getting it setup correctly? I > would like to eventually tie it into some LDAP authentication at some > point, to allow for single-sign-on across the network & over the > internet...but not sure if I should do from the start or add later. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
