Share-Importer

Share-Importer is a Nextcloud app which automatically mounts SMB shares for a user at login time. Information about which shares are assigned to a user is provided by an external web service. This web services is not part of the app.

Method of Operation

The Share-Importer app uses an Event-Listener for the UserLoggedIn event, to be activated whenever a user logs in. A HTTP request is then sent to the web service to get a list of SMB shares which are assigned to the user. This list is used to mount the shares within Nextcloud so that they are automatically accessible to the user after logging in.

Installation

The directory shareimporter should be placed in the Nextcloud base directory under apps. Some changes to the configuration variables are required for the app to work (see below).

Configuration

Configuration is done in the main Nextcloud configuration file config.php.

Configuration Variable	Description	Type	Default
share_importer_exclude_users	List of users which are ignored by the share importer.	Array
share_importer_webservice_url	Full URL for accessing the web service. Required.	String
share_importer_webservice_api_key	API key for accessing the web service. Required.	String
share_importer_webservice_verify_certificate	true if the TLS certificate of the web service should be verified, otherwise false	Boolean	true
share_importer_webservice_timeout	Timeout in seconds for a reply of the web service.	Integer	5
share_importer_webservice_connect_timeout	Timeout in seconds for the connection setup to the web service.	Integer	5
share_importer_auth_mech	Name of the Nextcloud-internal authentication mechanism for the SMB share. The default value "password:sessioncredentials" means that the saved login credentials are being used.	String	password:sessioncredentials

Webservice

The share importer sends a HTTP GET request to the configured URL. The username is passed as an URL-encoded parameter in the following form: ?username=<username> The API key is sent as an HTTP header named "ApiKey".

Example JSON Response:

{ "username": "testuser", "shares" : [ { "mountpoint": "T:test", "share": "test", "host": "localhost","domain":"WORKGROUP","type":"smb" } ]}