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Cbhihe

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Registered: 2017-04-09

Posts: 244

[SOLVED) Nautilus not connecting to Nextcloud webdav volume

Background:
Archlinux with v47.0 of gnome, gdm, nautilus, and v1.56 of gvfs-goa.
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Until recently, I could mount a remote Nextcloud volume manually from within Nautilus v47.0.
What I used to do was to use the davs:// protocol to connect the Nautilus file manager to a Nextcloud share, typing in
> davs://b2drop.mydomain/remote.php/dav/files/USERNAME
and entering the user's credentials. I could then create a shortcut as a “bookmark” to be kept in the lower left panel of the Nautilus window.

Now when on the Nautilus’ main window, clicking on Network in the left panel and then the small information icon (i) tagged “Server Address Information” at the bottom of the window, the webdav protocol is no longer listed among the available protocols. Only afp, ftp, ssh, nfs, smb are.  If I do try to input a davs://… address, all I get is: “This operation is not permitted on your Operating System.”

Will appreciate confirmation that davs is no longer supported (and that, at least for Archlinux users, NextCloud is invisible to Nautilus), or otherwise point out what I am missing?

Last edited by Cbhihe (2024-11-01 17:11:56)

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Cbhihe

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Registered: 2017-04-09

Posts: 244

Re: [SOLVED) Nautilus not connecting to Nextcloud webdav volume

Sebastian Keller provided me with the solution here on the Gnome discourse forum. Essentially Archlinux does not provide the gvfs implementation for GIO DNS-SD and WebDAV backend  and those must be specifically installed as the gvfs-dnssd package. That solved it.

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Rash419

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Registered: 2025-02-24

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Re: [SOLVED) Nautilus not connecting to Nextcloud webdav volume

Sebastian Keller provided me with the solution here on the Gnome discourse forum. Essentially Archlinux does not provide the gvfs implementation for GIO DNS-SD and WebDAV backend  and those must be specifically installed as the gvfs-dnssd package. That solved it.

Thanks !!!