Mounting .mac iDisk on Ubuntu

I tend to keep some files that I need access to from different computers on my .mac iDisk account, when on a windows computer Apple has a utility to mount the file system, but when using Linux (Ubuntu in my case) your out of luck.

But luckily iDisk is just a webdav share so mounting it is pretty easy.

Firstly do a

sudo apt-get install davfs2

This will install the required utility to mount webdav file systems.

Then fire up your favorite editor and edit

/etc/davfs2/secrets

And ad a entry like this

http://idisk.mac.com/username USERNAME PASSWORD

to mount the file system manually type

mount -t davfs http://idisk.mac.com/username /mnt/idisk

That’s it, your ready to go.

If you like to have it automatically mounted when booting you have to edit /etc/fstab and add

http://idisk.mac.com/username /mnt/idisk davfs user 0 0

January 2, 2007 | Filed Under linux, mac osx, ubuntu

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4 Responses to “Mounting .mac iDisk on Ubuntu”

  1. gus on October 29th, 2008 5:24 pm

    sudo mkdir /mnt/idisk before mount manually

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  3. Yogsototh on May 13th, 2009 12:40 pm

    Hi, using this method I can only read or create directories. Unfortunately, I can’t write files. Did you experienced such a problem?

  4. W4llet on July 8th, 2009 7:26 am

    Awsome. Worked 100%!

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