Radboud University makes small steps towards Nextcloud: "Synchronising SURFdrive with files on your device"
https://www.ru.nl/en/manuals/synchronising-surfdrive-with-files-on-your-device
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@djoerd Do all students and employees get access to SURFdrive? I had to ask for access at my institute (and immediately got it).
Can highly recommend, but so far I have only been using it as file sync.
I also use nextcloud at home and it's nice to only have to install one client which connects to multiple accounts.
The virtual file support on MacOS, however, is still quite new and a bit unreliably.
"its a small step for Djoerd, but a huge step for digital sovereignty"
I assume the 'Nextcloud Desktop Client' mentioned here is the Nextcloud files application? It comes with a .AppImage file for Linux, that's a first for me. It seems to run out-of-the-box... (make it executable and run!)
Next challenge: Sync Calendar and Contacts using this guide:
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/thunderbird
...but first exam grading...
Whoa, that page is 5.5 years old! Lightning and Provider for CalDAV & CardDAV are no longer needed. Thunderbird now seems to have native Calendar, CalDAV and CardDAV support.
Ok, I did this:
1. Open the SurfDrive Dashboard;
2. On the bottom left, select: setting for files (Instellingen voor bestanden)
3. Click WebDav and copy the URL
4. Click: yada yada, App Password ("Als je 2FA hebt ingeschakeld moet je een app wachtwoord maken en gebruiken door hier te klikken")
5. Create a new app and copy username and password
(I also created a file calendar.ics in dashboard under files -- not sure if that was necessary)
Then in Thunderbird, on the Calendar View: Click "New Calendar" and input the url, login and password you just got from SurfDrive;
Then subscribe to "calendar.ics".
(The first time I did this, the calendar was read-only, but then in the dashboard, I deleted it, and in Thunderbird it started working -- again, seems unlikely that all of that was necessary)
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@djoerd Maar "zou nu verbonden moeten zijn", daar straalt het vertrouwen nou niet echt van af...
@heinragas Ja, ze kunnen nog wat meer "bravoure" gebruiken. Maar het klopt wel hoor.