Hello,
if I create or change a file in the mounted box directory its timestamps are off by 9 hours after remount (reconnect). Probably the timezone has some effect too, mine is currently CEST which is GMT +2 hours.

Check the following scenario:

[jhradek@vice ~]$ box
mkdir "/home/jhradek/cloud" && boxfs -f "/home/jhradek/.boxfs/conf"

[jhradek@vice ~]$ cd cloud
/home/jhradek/cloud

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ mount | grep boxfs
boxfs on /home/jhradek/cloud type fuse.boxfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ ls -l testfile
ls: cannot access testfile: No such file or directory

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ date
Sat Jun  7 11:07:45 CEST 2014

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ echo "hello world" > testfile

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ ls -l testfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhradek users 12 Jun  7 11:07 testfile

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ stat testfile
  File: ‘testfile’
  Size: 12          Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 8           Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  jhradek)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2014-06-07 11:07:52.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2014-06-07 11:07:52.000000000 +0200
Change: 2014-06-07 11:07:52.000000000 +0200
 Birth: -

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ cat testfile
hello world

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ cd ..

[jhradek@vice ~]$ box -
sudo umount "/home/jhradek/cloud" && rmdir "/home/jhradek/cloud"

[jhradek@vice ~]$ box
mkdir "/home/jhradek/cloud" && boxfs -f "/home/jhradek/.boxfs/conf"

[jhradek@vice ~]$ cd cloud/
/home/jhradek/cloud

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ ls -l testfile 
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhradek users 12 Jun  7 02:08 testfile

[jhradek@vice cloud]$ stat testfile
  File: ‘testfile’
  Size: 12          Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 6           Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  jhradek)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2014-06-07 02:08:22.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2014-06-07 02:08:22.000000000 +0200
Change: 2014-06-07 02:08:21.000000000 +0200
 Birth: -

Regards,
Jan hradek

Hi, I justo found this!

I installed all dependencies without error
I run boxfs-init without errors.
But boxfs -f ~/.boxfs/conf gives me:

boxfs: error while loading shared libraries: libapp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What did I did wrong?

Is there a installer file for boxfs like .deb or something else which supports Linux Mint 19?

thanks,

Hi, I know its been a few years since you worked on this but I was looking for an alternative to davfs2 that would allow direct access to files for streaming rather than caching first and I came across boxfs2. I got it setup and have my Box account mounted and I can copy files TO the box folder but when I try to access a file in the Box folder or cp it locally the command completes instantly and the file size is 0 bytes. There is no error. If you could help or have suggestions I would be grateful. Alternatively if boxfs2 is similar to davfs2 in that the full file has to be cached locally before accessing it is possible could you tell me? It would save me the time of troubleshooting the copy issue. Thanks

Hi again,

After creating a standard config through boxfs-init and set my mount point, I run boxfs -f .boxfs/conf and start the authentication process. When I grant access and try to copy the code from the URL parameters, my terminal does not accept the input.

I took a look at the code found that in libapp/app.c you disable the c_lflag ECHO for this specific input. Although it should only disable the echo, as a test, I commented and compiled the calls to app_term_set_echo and after I tried the authentication process again I could successfully input the code.

I read the termios struct documentation, but found nothing related.

After this, fuse gives me a permission denied error, I guess this is my particular problem.

DISCLAIMER: The input in the authentication process I do it from an OS X terminal with a SSH to a Debian machine (I paste the code by doing Cmd+v or Shft + Cmd + v)

HI,

Thank you for this project. Is there a way to add boxfs mount to fstab?

Everytime I run boxfs, I have to acquire a new token. Not sure why the old token file isn't usable. The token file is in the folder referenced by the config file and has 0400 permissions.

# Conf file for boxfs
# edit to fit your needs.

# Put oauth2 tokens here:
token_file = /media/Data/.box/token

# Set a valid mount point
mountpoint = /media/Data/Box.com

verbose    = no
largefiles = no

# Configure the cache
cache_dir   = /media/Data/.box/cache
expire_time = 1440

# Configure your uid and gid below:
#uid = 1000
#gid = 1000
fperm = 644
dperm = 755

Is this a bug? Am I misinterpreting the performance?

Hi Domenico,

I compiled boxfs2 on a Debian with libcurl3 and the rest of the dependencies mentioned. After running the init script I run boxfs with the conf file created and I get a segmentation fault. Here is the syslog message:

Nov 30 20:41:28 manuel kernel: [16253110.231448] boxfs[15214]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f0cdc792e21 sp 00007fff41c50548 error 4 in libc-2.13.so[7f0cdc712000+180000]

Is it a configuration/compile issue or am I missing something?

I can not get Auth to work.
Command line is sudo ./boxfs -f /home/casucan/.boxfs/conf

Conf file looks like.

Conf file for boxfs

edit to fit your needs.

Put oauth2 tokens here:

token_file = /home/casucan/.boxfs/token

Set a valid mount point

mountpoint = /usr/local/boxfs

verbose = no
largefiles = no

Configure the cache

cache_dir = /home/casucan/.boxfs/cache
expire_time = 1440

Configure your uid and gid below:

uid = 1000

gid = 1000

fperm = 644

dperm = 755

It asks me to go to the https://www.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize web site to get the code.
I type in code and get error message.
Unable to get access token: Auth code doesn't exist or is invalid for the client

How can I correct this?

Without changing anything I now get the error "unable to parse server response:" empty string when I try to mount with a token. sudo boxfs -u [email protected] /mnt/mybox "gives me Unable to initialize Box.net connection."
box.com account is still valid.

After installing the necessary components, upon running the make file I'm greeted with the following:
boxapi.h:11:18: fatal error: fuse.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [boxfs.o] Error 1

I was interested in testing this out, but am unable to compile it in Ubuntu 14.04. It seems to have issues with libjson. I was using make static. Here's the relevant output:

Building  boxfs
cc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2     -o boxfs boxfs.o boxapi.o boxpath.o boxhttp.o boxopts.o boxjson.o boxcache.o boxutils.o -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lfuse -lxml2 -lcurl -lapp -ljson   -lpthread
boxjson.o: In function `jobj_parse':
boxjson.c:(.text+0x3c7): undefined reference to `json_parser_dom_init'
boxjson.c:(.text+0x3fa): undefined reference to `json_parser_dom_callback'
boxjson.c:(.text+0x402): undefined reference to `json_parser_init'
boxjson.c:(.text+0x441): undefined reference to `json_parser_string'
boxjson.c:(.text+0x45c): undefined reference to `json_parser_is_done'
boxjson.c:(.text+0x47a): undefined reference to `json_parser_free'
boxjson.c:(.text+0x489): undefined reference to `json_parser_dom_free'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [boxfs] Error 1

Full log here:
http://pastebin.com/m8RvbwGU

Any assistance would be appreciated.

I have tried many times but cannot paste after the instruction:
"Visit https://app.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=f9ss11y2w0hg5r04jsidxlhk4pil28cf to authorize, then paste the code below
Code:"

After the word "code:" pasting is not possible, then the 30 seconds time run out.
What can I do to get boxfs authenticated?

many thanks in advance

Hi there,

I'm trying to mount the box drive using boxfs in my Linux Mint but end up with this,
:~/boxfs2$ boxfs ~/Box.com
Login: [email protected]
Password:
noname.xml:6: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: hr line 5 and body

^
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
:/boxfs2$ make clean
rm -f boxfs.o boxapi.o boxpath.o boxhttp.o boxopts.o boxjson.o boxcache.o boxutils.o * boxfs
:/boxfs2$ export CFLAGS=-g
:/boxfs2$ make
Compiling boxfs.c
cc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/local/include -g -c boxfs.c -o boxfs.o
Compiling boxapi.c
cc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/local/include -g -c boxapi.c -o boxapi.o
In file included from boxpath.h:16:0,
from boxapi.c:11:
boxjson.h:12:10: fatal error: json.h: No such file or directory
#include <json.h>
^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Makefile:27: recipe for target 'boxapi.o' failed
make: *** [boxapi.o] Error 1

I have tried to find the trace by following this https://github.com/drotiro/boxfs2/wiki/Debugging-a-Segfault but end up with no trace.

your help is highly appreciated

When compiling on OS X using OSXFUSE, several errors appear regarding the version of fuse being used:

In file included from /usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse/fuse.h:26:
/usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse/fuse_common.h:271:8: error: On Darwin API version 25 or greater must be used

The errors appear when compiling these files:

boxapi.c
boxhttp.c
boxopts.c
boxpath.c

It appears that FUSE_USE_VERSION is defined in only boxfs.c, so is undefined in these other files. I think it would be better to move this definition to boxapi.h so it is available when these other files are compiled.

When I try to mount I get a URL to get my code. When I try that URL, I get the intermediate page where box asks me if it is ok, and I say yes... and I'm redirected to github... but the URL I get is:
https://github.com/drotiro/boxfs2/wiki/authenticated?error=server_error&error_description=107
So there is no code I can use a an authentication token.
Am I doing something wrong?

Currently, boxfs2 does not take an -o option.
-o should take long options (e.g., conffile=/home/user/.boxfs/conf).

This is important if you want people to mount via fuse.
E.g.,
mount -t fuse boxfs ~/Box -o conffile=/home/user/Box
Why would you want to mount via fuse?
Users may need to mount this via fstab, or through systemd mount units.

Currently, this is possible with davfs. boxfs needs this option.

The primary issue is that you cannot use boxfs with mount.fuse because boxfs (for some unknown reason) does not, by default, use ~/.boxfs/conf as its configuration file, even though boxfs-init creates this file. So you /have/ to specify -f each time you want to mount. This is fine from CLI, but for mount.fuse, you need to be able to pass it the conf option somehow, and this should be done via -o.

I noticed that when running rsync, it behaves as regular copy-over instead of running a diff. Also, when it finishes, timestams are not preserved because

rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/box/.20130918_191811.jpg.7mnBxP": No such file or directory (2)

Filenames change after they are done copying and rsync does not keep track of them on boxfs. Is this something to remedy or is it just the charm of boxfs?

Hi, I'd like to pass my own options to libfuse. For example, this FUSE over Google Drive https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse allows one to pass any options directly to libfuse with the -o option, such as:

$ google-drive-ocamlfuse -o allow_other

It states in the help as:

  -o          specify FUSE mount options.

However, I don't see anything similar in boxfs2. It would be nice to have something like that as well.

I wanted to pass my -o allow_other to libfuse with boxfs2 so that I can see the mounted directory through SMB. For now, I've modified the source on my fork in 79457da and it seems to be working well so far.