What Are You Doing Right Now
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Sitting at my CIO's desk today in our headquarters. Feels super weird.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I started playing around with nextcloud. Trying to see if this is a viable replacement for our windows based file server.
The use of NC compared to a network share is significant with the exception of WebDAV shares. The sync client can make personal files available easy enough - assuming enough local storage - but how do you manage shared drives?
If you already have an AD environment, you just connect NextCloud to the AD environment and do user/group permissions like normal. The latest demo that I put together is joined to AD and uses the in-place file server for storage. It's making files accessible by any device anywhere.
I don't follow - are you saying NC has SMB sharing? If so - cool!
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I started playing around with nextcloud. Trying to see if this is a viable replacement for our windows based file server.
The use of NC compared to a network share is significant with the exception of WebDAV shares. The sync client can make personal files available easy enough - assuming enough local storage - but how do you manage shared drives?
If you already have an AD environment, you just connect NextCloud to the AD environment and do user/group permissions like normal. The latest demo that I put together is joined to AD and uses the in-place file server for storage. It's making files accessible by any device anywhere.
I don't follow - are you saying NC has SMB sharing? If so - cool!
I think he means he's just using NC as an optional interface to the file server
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I started playing around with nextcloud. Trying to see if this is a viable replacement for our windows based file server.
The use of NC compared to a network share is significant with the exception of WebDAV shares. The sync client can make personal files available easy enough - assuming enough local storage - but how do you manage shared drives?
If you already have an AD environment, you just connect NextCloud to the AD environment and do user/group permissions like normal. The latest demo that I put together is joined to AD and uses the in-place file server for storage. It's making files accessible by any device anywhere.
I don't follow - are you saying NC has SMB sharing? If so - cool!
I think he means he's just using NC as an optional interface to the file server
You nailed it.
In this case, it's enabling Android tablets to access a share on the file server. The Android client for NextCloud always makes sure it is showing an up to date list of files. The other "sync" type software just stop syncing randomly, so it's fixing a major headache.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I started playing around with nextcloud. Trying to see if this is a viable replacement for our windows based file server.
The use of NC compared to a network share is significant with the exception of WebDAV shares. The sync client can make personal files available easy enough - assuming enough local storage - but how do you manage shared drives?
If you already have an AD environment, you just connect NextCloud to the AD environment and do user/group permissions like normal. The latest demo that I put together is joined to AD and uses the in-place file server for storage. It's making files accessible by any device anywhere.
I don't follow - are you saying NC has SMB sharing? If so - cool!
I think he means he's just using NC as an optional interface to the file server
You nailed it.
In this case, it's enabling Android tablets to access a share on the file server. The Android client for NextCloud always makes sure it is showing an up to date list of files. The other "sync" type software just stop syncing randomly, so it's fixing a major headache.
Which other are you talking about? OneDrive?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I started playing around with nextcloud. Trying to see if this is a viable replacement for our windows based file server.
The use of NC compared to a network share is significant with the exception of WebDAV shares. The sync client can make personal files available easy enough - assuming enough local storage - but how do you manage shared drives?
If you already have an AD environment, you just connect NextCloud to the AD environment and do user/group permissions like normal. The latest demo that I put together is joined to AD and uses the in-place file server for storage. It's making files accessible by any device anywhere.
I don't follow - are you saying NC has SMB sharing? If so - cool!
I think he means he's just using NC as an optional interface to the file server
You nailed it.
In this case, it's enabling Android tablets to access a share on the file server. The Android client for NextCloud always makes sure it is showing an up to date list of files. The other "sync" type software just stop syncing randomly, so it's fixing a major headache.
Which other are you talking about? OneDrive?
The one they're using now is called GoodSync.... it does sync files, but only when it feels like it.
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I still have a long way to go, but I see NC as the next phase in our "shared file" evolution. It looks like I could simply recreate the same structure (or something very similar) as what we have in our file server, inside NC. If I went this route, then most things are similar to what we already have, but we get some added features, such as the ability to share files with third parties without resorting to email. We have times where the email attachment size limit comes into play, and this would allow that to all go away. NC would also give us versioning outside of my backups, which might be nice if we trained people to use them. If we went with NC, we would also likely enable remote access, which added to the multiplatform clients, would basically make the files always available for our users, even if they are not on premise.
One main benefit, is the ability to sync select files to the user's local disk. This should have a pretty good performance benefit, especially with half of my users at the site that is across the WAN.
so far I have just fired up an online demo, and played around a bit. With all I typed above, I could probably make this very similar to a basic file server, but I want to explore the other differences between NC and a file server, because there may be things we can do that are fundamentally different with NC, and they may be better in the long run, the use of tags being a good example. I also need to think about the concept of a user having any dedicated, potentially semi-private, shares versus everyone using a common share that is setup by the admin user (basically what we have now). Our current storage philosophy is based on how we used an old simple NAS that used to have no permissions, and only the most basic folder structure.
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not to mention all the other things that NC can do that are not directly related to file sharing.
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Going home now
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Working till 5pm (Mountain Time).
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working till 5pm (Mountain Time).
"Working" 5pm EST here... today, I'm just a warm body in a chair. All our systems are cooperating with us, so... /me puts on the dang helmet.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working till 5pm (Mountain Time).
"Working" 5pm EST here... today, I'm just a warm body in a chair. All our systems are cooperating with us, so... /me puts on the dang helmet.
I only have one physical task today and that is to replace a projector in a classroom.
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I will probably just be reading all day about Nextcloud. Some small fires might pop up, but I doubt it.
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working til 5 pm CST here, everyone's last minute Promotions are keeping us pretty busy today.
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Trying to convince either of two young men that unplugging and plugging in an ATM is a good thing when needed.
I have to wait for the store manager to call me to power cycle the device.
Of course, they called support for the ATM before they called us. I didn't know that while i'm watching them on the cameras that we need a special laptop to test the internet strength.
Happy Thanksgiving folks.
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Just starting work for the day..
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working till 5pm (Mountain Time).
/sigh 5 PM central time here.
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Site is super slow today, the US is heading off to vacation time, here.
