Using socks proxy with Ubuntu One

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 04:41:52PM -0000, Jesse wrote:
> New question #108759 on Ubuntu One Client:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+question/108759
>
> I used to be able to manually run the ubuntuone-syncdaemon with "socksify" that comes with dante-client package. Now in Ubuntu Lucid, I found that I'm no longer able to wrap the syncdaemon with socksify and sync my files. Can anybody explain how I can achieve this again? My work places uses SOCKS firewall. Thanks a lot!

try socksifying the dbus entries,

    /usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.ubuntuone.Authentication.service
    /usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.service

as well as the desktop entry,

    /usr/share/applications/ubuntuone-preferences.desktop

and tell us how it goes! Also I'm interesting in knowing if the
nautilus integration works.

John, I'm not quite sure what you mean by socksify'ing the dbus entries. But I did try running both ubuntuone-login and ubuntuone-syncdaemon with the socksify wrapper. the program /usr/bin/ubuntuone-preferences , however, will not pop out the window when wrapped with socksify.

By 'socksifying the dbus entries' I meant to edit the Exec lines from the indicated paths, e.g.

    Exec=/usr/lib/ubuntuone-client/ubuntuone-login

and editing it to look like

    Exec=/usr/bin/socksify /usr/lib/ubuntuone-client/ubuntuone-login

make sure you kill ubuntuone-syncdaemon and ubuntuone-login (with e.g. killall ubuntuone-syncdaemon ubuntuone-login) before trying out these changes; if the program is already running it won't be started again.

Thanks for your patience, and please keep me updated!

hi john! sorry for not replying sooner. yes in most cases ubuntuone is working nicely with the modified dbus entries!
btw nautilus isn't showing an overlay icon for custom folders i sync to ubuntuone. maybe i should open another bug though ...