Box.com offers online storages service for businesses and individuals. Box service helps keep your files safe with cloud-native security capabilities like granular access controls, watermarking, and classification. As of this writing, Box did not offer any native Linux client that works with their platform. However, there’s a secure WebDAV protocol that works and allows you to mount your online storage easily via HTTPS. Once mounted, you’ll be able to fully access your Box content securely via WebDAV protocol, find every file you need, edit like you would any local file and save it automatically to the cloud. To get started with mounting Box files on Ubuntu, follow the steps below:
Mount Box via File Manager
The quickest way to mount your Box storage on an Ubuntu desktop is by using the File Manager. Ubuntu file manager has built-in support to allow you to access remote servers over multiple protocols such as FTP, NFS, Samba, SSH, AppleTalk, and WebDAV. To mount your Box storage, open the Ubuntu file manager and click on the menu + Other Locations Then type in the Box WebDAV address: After that click Connect. That should prompt you to enter your Box account username and password to sign in. Login and begin managing your Box content. You can add the Box mount to your favorite by right-clicking the Box link on the left and selecting Add to favorite. That’s now to mount Box on Ubuntu file explorer.
Mount Box via Command Line
If you’re running a Linux server and want to mount your Box storage via the terminal, use the steps below: First, run the commands below to install the required packages When prompted if you would like to have unprivileged users mount WebDAV resources, select Yes. Create your Box mount point on the server. This is the location you’ll access your Box content. We’re going to create it in our home folder and call it Box. Box does not support file locks. To get this to work, you’ll need to disable file locks in the davfs2 configuration file located at /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf. Run the commands below to open the config file. Then disable the lock file by editing the file and changing the highlighted value to 0. Save the ext. After that, run the commands below to add your account to the davfs2 group. You may have to log out and back in or reboot the machine after running the commands above. Next, edit the /etc/fstab file and add a Box mount point entry. Then add the line below to the end of the file and save. Save the file and exit. After adding the entry, run the commands below to mount your Box content. You’ll be prompted to enter your Box account details. Now go to ~/Box to get your content. That’s it! Conclusion: This post showed you how to mount Box content on Ubuntu. If you find any error above, use the form below to report it.
