[Nottingham] Dropbox

[Paul]

Stripes

If my memory of the dropbox install install is correct, the Ubuntu 
installer only installs enough to allow it to connect to dropbox and 
install the propriety programs. I am guessing this has not happened 
because of the firewall.

Had the same problem with a while ago with a client in China. The only 
way we could get a cloud drive to work though the firewall was using 
openCloud as it only uses http or https.

Hope this helps

RG


On 25/08/14 12:35, stripes wrote:
> I am trying to help my partner who is half a world away install and
> configure dropbox. She is behind a corporate firewall with badly
> configured proxies.
>
> She is using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using gnome classic
>
> Have so far talked her through this
>
> Tried sudo aptitude install dropbox
> Not available.
>
> Tried wget but proxies won't let it connect.
>
> Downloaded from the website and installed no problem
>
> Dropbox is installed and running with a menu item in the internet tab.
>
>  From the terminal dropbox status shows that it is up to date
>
> Now the problem there is no dropbox indicator in the task bar.
>
> Tried sudo aptitude install libappindicator1
>
> but it is already installed and up to date.
>
> Tried dropbox stop &&  dropbox start
>
> No change
>
> Tried logging out and restarting the box
>
> No change.
>
> Without this icon I can find no way to get to the dropbox preferences
> to set the proxies and without that there is no way dropbox can ever
> sync or even know that it is not synced.
>
> My next suggestion is going to be connect via a USB dongle and not the
> university network which should avoid the proxies and allow it to sync
> just to prove that dropbox is working and that the problem really is
> the indicator icon.
>
> Any suggestions as to what I should try on our next chat session it
> has me beat at present.
>
> Stripes
>
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