On 06/02/15 14:32, Tim Watts wrote:
I am giving serious credence to getting chromebooks for the kids
schooling (and other) wibblings.

The world has moved past hardwired machines and NFS servers and
semi-disconnected is the way forward and in many ways I am impressed
with the ideas behind chromebooks. The lower maintenance (ie my time) is
attractive.
....


1) Don't like relying on Google, dropbox etc for storage. Must be able
to self host a cloud off my existing vast servers that are full of
photos, music and important documents.

....
Seafile looks interesting...

Coming back to this (and adding uk.d-i-y in)

http://www.tonido.com/

Just slapped a trial version on my laptop and it does "work" as in my
android phone can see a shared folder. Claims to be able to handle
sync-ing like Dropbox too.

Anyone else had any experience with Tonido? It costs (well the version
with less limitations, and I have NO problem with that).

The world is moving on - I have a massive repo of files (TBs) on my
various linux servers and I need to make them available to chromebooks,
pads and phones...

The only thing I can find wrong is it does not seem to be able to map
drive users to POSIX users (with the server running on linux). This is a
bit annoying as I have media trees with mixed ownership files.

For a family of 4 I guess I can fudge around it with ACLs... But I am
once again reminded of the old and tested mantra:

"Those who do not understand unix are doomed to reinvent it. Poorly."