Is it possible to share a folder using Ubuntu One outside the home folder?

Question

As the title suggests, I can't figure out a way to share a folder outside my home folder using Ubuntu One. When browsing to my work partition using Nautilus, every folder has the "Share" option grayed out.

Answer 1

You could try using a mount --bind command. Something like

mount --bind /path/to/folder /home/username/folder_to_sync

This should make the contents of /path/to/folder available in both places.

Ubuntu-one doesn't support symlinks, but it might support binding mounts. If it does work, you can add a line to /etc/fstab

/path/to/folder /home/username/folder_to_sync    none    bind    0    0

That way it will always mount on boot.

Answer 2

I just did a test, created a new folder /new and gave it permissions 777. When right clicking on it, Ubuntu One options were greyed out. Also tried creating a shortcut in ~/ dir, but no luck either.

In short: No, you can't

Answer 3

There are unsupported ways which will work. Think mount points under ~/

Using a bind mount as described above to a folder under ~/ you can sync any folder on your computer with Ubuntu One.

I sync folders on a separate partition with Ubuntu One this way.

Like I said, this is not really supported, but it does work