• Welcome!

    10 January 2014 Author: Stefano Prenna
    No comment yet

    Problems and solutions, this is our life. And this is even more true for all the support people in the IT world.

    This blog wants to open discussions on common ideas/thoughts, analyse useful software, provide good solutions to common issues or even just leave comments on funny episodes that everybody see everyday, providing support.

    My will is to respect everybody, avoiding useless flames, offensive language and/or bad behaviour.

    I’ve spent more that 15 years giving support. I’ve started in the 1990 on 8086 machines running MS-DOS 3.1 and since then I’ve dedicated my whole time searching for solutions to any kind of issues. I’ve seen any kind of things and talked to any kind of people. Anyway, I can say that almost everyday is a different day, with new and sometimes incredible happenings.

    This blog is against piracy. Don’t ask for illegal copies of software/cracks/keygen etc.

    In this blog I want to share my experience for free. Everybody is welcome to add his own and enjoy of this “knowledge sharing”.

    Thank you,
    Stefano Prenna

  • Tutorial: how to automatically mount WebDAV shares at boot in Linux

    8 January 2014 Author: Stefano Prenna
    6 Comments

    In Ubuntu (and Kubuntu or Lubuntu) you can quite easily access a WebDav (or WebDavs) share using the standard file manager: Nautilus, Konqueror or PcManFm.

    Just put in the address bar the site you want to open (for example: davs://yoursitename or webdav://yoursitename) and click on enter… That’s it (probably you will be asked for credentials – just put the right ones there…)!

    To make it work you only need to know if the connection is secure (davs) or not (webdav) and if the package davfs2 is installed (open a terminal and type “sudo apt-get install davfs2”).

    However in some cases you may want to have this share always mounted in your system and without the need to put credentials. If this is your case, the solution is pretty easy:

    Create a folder on your disk into which the web share will be mounted:
    sudo mkdir /mnt/sharename

    sudo nano /etc/davfs2/secrets

    add the line:
    https://www.yourshare.com username password

    and now you need to make sure the connection is made each time you start your computer:

    sudo nano /etc/fstab

    at the end of the file, on a new line type:

    https://www.yourshare.com/ /mnt/sharename    davfs   defaults,uid=username,gid=username,_netdev,auto  0       0

    Please note the options uid and gid, these are used to tell to the system which user will be able to write to the share (normally is root). In this case “username” is the one you use on your computer.
    The option “_netdev” tells to the system to wait for the connections to be up before attempting to mount the share (otherwise it will fail). The mount will happen automatically, as requested by the option “auto”.

Previous Page