You can do it in two ways:
Either you can let each user use their own account for their own dropbox or
you can install it on the server without any user interaction required. In
the latter case then just create a symlink into the dropbox folder for any
folder you want "dropboxed".
Ask google for "dropbox server installation", you'll find good guidance.
regards
Roland
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert <
eilert-sprac...@t-online.de> wrote:
> This is interesting for me, too. I've been looking for a way to offer
> dropbox to the LTSP users and have it installed for them IF they wish.
>
> Dropbox needs a user account on their server, of course, so it would be
> some kind of registering procedure included here. The first point I
> would have to make clear is whether the user has to register with
> Dropbox (via their website) prior to install on the LTSP system, or
> during my install-script-or-whatsoever under LTSP. (I do have another
> Linux and another Windows with my Dropbox account, but I don't remember
> if the installer can actually register the user. Do you know it?)
>
> Currently, I use Dropbox on the LTSP system, and the binaries are in a
> simple directory in my $HOME. I thought of making a copy of it in /opt
> or so. My install script could then make a symlink from the user's
> Autostart pointing to the binary.
>
> They could download and install it under Windows at home for themselves
> then.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Rolf
>
>
> Am 19.11.2013 11:26, schrieb Roland Giesler:
> > Alessandro, it will work just like it does on a desktop machine.
> > Dropbox puts its configuration files into the user's directories, so
> > there won't be a conflict between different users' configurations or
> > files. It all happens on the server anyway, not on the client.
> >
> > Incidentally, I actually by default delete the "documents" directory and
> > create a new symlink to a "documents" folder in the user's dropbox,
> > which then gives them an offsite copy. I just tell them to store
> > sensitive files elsewhere if they're not comfortable having it in a
> dropbox.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > *Roland Giesler
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> >
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> >
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Alessandro Dentella <san...@e-den.it
> > <mailto:san...@e-den.it>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I need to installa Drop Box in an LTSP environment.
> >
> > I'm wandering if I really need to install it in the ltsp image (fat
> > client)
> > or if I can just install it on the server, considering it will act
> > on files
> > dropped in the DropBox directory via nfs.
> >
> > I think this shoud be the way to go but I've no experience of
> > DropBox myself
> > and I don't know how to make a server installation that uses many
> > different
> > accounts to save files in the cloud.
> >
> > I see many different howto, but no one seems to address a correct
> > policy for
> > a server installation.
> >
> > Any hint or link would be appreciated
> >
> > thanks in advance
> > sandro
> > *:-)
> >
> >
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