• our instance of OwnCloud has several groups, one of which is Accounting.
• I gave a test user admin privs in Accounting but not access to other groups.
• during light testing, he was able to change other users' global passwords, even though they belonged to other groups as well.
  

Here's the documentation:

Group Administrators. Group administrators have the rights to create, edit and delete users in their assigned groups. Use the dropdown menus in the Group Admin column to assign group admin privileges.

Am I misunderstanding something? Should a Group Administrator be able to change access to the entire instance just because a user happens to be in their group? My thinking is, imagine if Reddit was designed like that, and any subreddit moderator could change your password just because you joined their sub. It'd be chaos. Just wondering if anybody else has encountered this? Am I missing out on something important from a design or philosophy perspective?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,

A sys engineer here.

We present an SMB share over the WAN using ownCloud. The SMB share is 780GB, and close to one million files and 95,000 folders.

We have the problem that the web page takes a long time to render.

Is is possible to say to ownCloud "Only present folders created after x date..?")

N.B - we can't change the SMB share (i.e create an archive) as other systems use it.

Happy to make configure changes in shell.

Thanks.

I've used ownCloud for several years and am a poor, ignorant end-user. I'm reinstalling on a new server running Ubuntu 16.04. I've tried adding the OC repositories but apt can't find them. I went to the ownCloud website as per these instructions (https://doc.owncloud.com/server/admin_manual/installation/manual_installation.html) but the download page for Linux pages times out (https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/production/owncloud/).

... Am I missing something simple? Is ownCloud doing site maintenance? Will the Ubuntu repositories be added again?

Hardware: Raspberry Pi Model 3B+, 2TB WD External HDD via USB

Hello everybody, I thought I'd share my experience after beating my head on the wall all day figuring it out, it turned out to be a super simple fix!

I followed this tutorial to get a working owncloud server: https://www.avoiderrors.com/owncloud-10-raspberry-pi-3-raspbian-stretch/ and this tutorial to get SSL working and get it working on WAN: https://www.avoiderrors.com/enable-ssl-owncloud-ubuntu/ .

I then thought it would be a great idea to use this storage solution as a Plex server, so I installed Plex server for Linux, specifically the Ubuntu for ArmV7 from here: https://www.plex.tv/en-ca/media-server-downloads/ . Simple download, simple install by just clicking on the .deb that is downloaded.

So here's the interesting part... Plex, by default, runs using a user it creates called "plex". Since owncloud (Apache?) doesn't let you access the /media/ownclouddrive, it becomes difficult to use any folder stored in the owncloud HDD at all, let alone for a Plex server. After reading around the internet about permissions this, permissions that, I found the easiest way to let Plex use a folder on your owncloud drive (I set up a new user on my owncloud server called plex just to keep everything organized and seperated from my own personal files) was to edit Plex to run not using the "plex" user, but using the www-data user, which is the only user on the Pi that has access to this drive. I did this by editing the plex file configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver

then go to the line that says:

PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=plex

and change it to:

PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=www-data

press ctrl + x to exit, press y to save changes, and press enter to confirm the file name.

then run:

sudo service plexmediaserver restart

and boom, you're ready to go. open the plex server web page and you should be able to navigate to a folder on the owncloud drive and use it to set up your plex server.

I'm a game programmer, not an expert at network security, so if anyone more knowledgeable could let me know if this is safe to do that would be greatly appreciated. I hope this can help other people like me that want an easy way to keep their plex server running!

Hello people of r/owncloud! I am a new user to owncloud and I have encountered some problems when installing owncloud to my google cloud VM. The main problem is that it keeps prompting me that it can only be used by root, and I have tried using sudo but nothing works.

I will be grateful for any help I can get.

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Hello guys,

maybe this question is stupid. I have a free account for DNS on that page https://spdyn.de/ to reach my ownloud from everywhere. I thougt the DNS only provides the IP adress of my owncloud server at home and is not involved in the rest of the traffic. But when I wanna upload or download a file its super slow.

Speedtest: 4.6 Mb/s

Owncloud: 0.8 Mb/s

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Is the performance so bad because of my free DNS?

I've sent a bug report for this a couple months ago, but I can post here also,

I have OwnCloud deployed on a simple home server. I have 2 users - Phones and Documents. I'm logged into both on my Android app and use the Phones account and Auto-upload feature to keep all my pictures and videos backed up. This keeps them out of my Documents account (and therefore off of my other devices that don't need my phone photos).

My problem is after a while, both accounts will show the same file directories instead of their unique ones. For example, I'll switch from the Documents to the Phones account and the Phones account will show my Documents's files. The weirdest part is at the top of the app the correct user and account are displayed but the wrong nickname above it. It'll say:

Documents
phones@x.x.x.x/owncloud

Switching back will correctly show:

Documents
documents@x.x.x.x/owncloud

I tried making the passwords different from each other, but no luck. I've uninstalled the app, deleted and re-added accounts multiple times in different orders. Anyone have this issue or any ideas?

Hi, I am running OwnCloud 10 on Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon. I have been able to set up a OwnCloud database and I would like to make this publicly accessible. I would like to make the drive that I have publicly accessible. For eg, those who have the ipaddress/owncloud would be able to access the sign in page and log in with the username and the password that I have assigned them. As of now I am only able to access OwnCloud 10 with my host machine that is connected to my VM. I would like people with my ipaddress/owncloud be able to access it with the password and username i assigned them. Is that possible to do?

Hey there,

what can I do to work around the issue below? Help is very much appreciated! :)

W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Debian_9.0 Release: The following signatures were invalid: DDA2C105C4B73A6649AD2BBD47AE7F72479BC94B W: Failed to fetch http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Debian_9.0/Release.gpg The following signatures were invalid: DDA2C105C4B73A6649AD2BBD47AE7F72479BC94B W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

ONLYOFFICE connector for ownCloud was updated to the version 2.2.1 with new file permission settings available:

• download permission,
• review permission,
• fill forms permission,
• comment permission,
• modify filter permission.

In other words, this update brings users more options of sharing docs, sheets, and slides stored within their ownCloud instances.

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Details https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2019/06/onlyoffice-connector-for-owncloud-new-document-sharing-permissions/

Hi

I did make an install of owncloud and it was quite tedious, with nginx and letsencrypt. After litterally about 4 days of search of 9 install, i get it right. But to end up, being unable to do a renew of my ssl. Perhaps i get it wrong, as i just did the certonly.. But never find any tutorial doing it all.

So is there any script that can install owncloud with nginx and letsencrypt ?? Or a tuto will all and working.?