To work with WebDav shares in Linux, there are two typical options
- Use Nautilus or Dolphin or similar file explorer GUI
- Via the command line
Some applications, like Cryptomator, seem to have issues creating vaults when the WebDav share is mounted using method 1. However, method 2 works well in these cases.
Via the command line
Install it first via
sudo apt install davfs2
There are ways to mount the WebDAV share by messing with /etc/fstab
which is recommended for more permanent configurations. See the link in the Reference section below.
For temporary configurations, it is easiest to
sudo mount -t davfs -o uid=1000 https://path/to/share /path/to/mountpoint
Note the -o uid=1000
option. 1000 just happens to be the uid of my user. Replace it with your uid. If this option is not provided, the resulting mounted share in /path/to/mountpoint
will be read-only for all users except root. Adding the -o uid=1000
option fixes this.
Now, cryptomator vaults can be created in /path/to/mountpoint
.