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Daily use of the CryptoBox

Activate your encrypted filesystem

You can activate your encrypted filesystem by doing following these steps:

Point your web browser at the address of your CryptoBox. The default is https://192.168.0.23.
Click on Activation of encrypted data. A new page asking for your crypto password appears.
Enter your crypto password and click on the button below labeled activate encrypted filesystem.

Now the filesystem is accessible. To use it, search for a computer in your network neighborhood. When asked for the name, enter the above IP address (default: 192.168.0.23). Now you can use it like any other network resource.

Use your encrypted data

Linux - command line

To use the encrypted data partition with regular user rights add the line below to your /etc/fstab:

//192.168.0.23/public   /mnt/    smbfs   defaults,noexec,noauto,user,guest      0       0

Now you can mount the encrypted data partition to /mnt:

mount /mnt

resp. unmount:

smbumount /mnt

Windows

Run the the Windows Explorer and choose Map network drive in the Tools menu:

select a drive of your choice
enter \\192.168.0.23\public (default setting) as target

Now you can use your encrypted data like any other network resource.

Deactivate your encrypted filesystem

You can deactivate the encrypted filesystem by clicking at Deactivation of encrypted data in the web interface of your CryptoBox.

Your data is now protected again.

Shut down your CryptoBox

Click at the Shutdown link in the menu of the web interface. There you can choose poweroff or reboot. The shutdown takes some seconds.

If the hardware of your CryptoBox is quite recent, it will power-off automatically. Otherwise you have to do it manually.

In case of emergency

If you have to protect the drive really fast, just power-off the CryptoBox machine instantly by pulling the plug or pushing the power button. This is not very clean and can (in very rare circumstances) corrupt open files, but it is the fasted method to secure your data.

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Questions and Answers

Windows: network drive cannot be mapped

This error message may appear, if you did not login during the booting of you windows machine (or you closed the login dialog by pressing ESC).

Solution: Choose Logout in the Start menu and login again.

Linux: only root can unmount //192.168.0.23/public

You can't unmount the partition with umount.

Solution: Use smbumount instead:

smbumount /mnt

Linux: Operation not permitted / smbmnt failed: 1

The attempt to mount the partition as a regular user ends up with:

cannot mount on /mnt/: Operation not permitted
smbmnt failed: 1

Solution: Set the directory's owner to the same user that mounts the share (e.g. phil):

chown phil. /mnt

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