Mount shared folders to team members’ accounts on their behalf, ensuring proper folder synchronization
Admin action to mount shared folders in member accounts when they cannot do it themselves. Useful for troubleshooting sync issues, helping non-technical users, or ensuring critical folders are properly mounted. Operates as if the member performed the action.
watermint toolbox
stores credentials into the file system. That is located at below path:
OS | Path |
---|---|
Windows | %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\secrets (e.g. C:\Users\bob.toolbox\secrets) |
macOS | $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /Users/bob/.toolbox/secrets) |
Linux | $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /home/bob/.toolbox/secrets) |
Please do not share those files to anyone including Dropbox support. You can delete those files after use if you want to remove it. If you want to make sure removal of credentials, revoke application access from setting or the admin console.
Please see below help article for more detail:
Description |
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Dropbox for teams: View your team membership |
Dropbox for teams: View your Dropbox sharing settings and collaborators |
Dropbox for teams: View and manage your Dropbox sharing settings and collaborators |
Dropbox for teams: View structure of your team’s and members’ folders |
Dropbox for teams: View and edit content of your team’s files and folders |
Dropbox for teams: View basic information about your team including names, user count, and team settings |
For the first run, tbx
will ask you an authentication with your Dropbox account.
Please copy the link and paste it into your browser. Then proceed to authorization. After authorization, Dropbox will show you an authorization code. Please copy that code and paste it to the application.
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Licensed under open source licenses. Use the `license` command for more detail.
1. Visit the URL for the auth dialogue:
https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&response_type=code&state=xxxxxxxx
2. Click 'Allow' (you might have to login first):
3. Copy the authorization code:
Enter the authorization code
Please download the pre-compiled binary from Latest Release. If you are using Windows, please download the zip file like tbx-xx.x.xxx-win.zip
. Then, extract the archive and place tbx.exe
on the Desktop folder.
The watermint toolbox can run from any path in the system if allowed by the system. But the instruction samples are using the Desktop folder. Please replace the path if you placed the binary other than the Desktop folder.
This document uses the Desktop folder for command example.
Windows:
cd $HOME\Desktop
.\tbx.exe dropbox team runas sharedfolder mount add -member-email EMAIL -shared-folder-id SHARED_FOLDER_ID
macOS, Linux:
$HOME/Desktop/tbx dropbox team runas sharedfolder mount add -member-email EMAIL -shared-folder-id SHARED_FOLDER_ID
Note for macOS Catalina 10.15 or above: macOS verifies Developer identity. Currently, tbx
is not ready for it. Please select “Cancel” on the first dialogue. Then please proceed “System Preference”, then open “Security & Privacy”, select “General” tab.
You may find the message like:
“tbx” was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer.
And you may find the button “Allow Anyway”. Please hit the button with your risk. At second run, please hit button “Open” on the dialogue.
DIRECT
if you want to skip setting proxy.Report file path will be displayed last line of the command line output. If you missed the command line output, please see path below. [job-id] will be the date/time of the run. Please see the latest job-id.
OS | Path pattern | Example |
---|---|---|
Windows | %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\jobs\[job-id]\reports |
C:\Users\bob.toolbox\jobs\20190909-115959.597\reports |
macOS | $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports |
/Users/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports |
Linux | $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports |
/home/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports |
This report shows a list of shared folders.
The command will generate a report in three different formats. mount.csv
, mount.json
, and mount.xlsx
.
Column | Description |
---|---|
shared_folder_id | The ID of the shared folder. |
name | The name of this shared folder. |
access_type | The current user’s access level for this shared file/folder (owner, editor, viewer, or viewer_no_comment) |
path_lower | The lower-cased full path of this shared folder. |
is_inside_team_folder | Whether this folder is inside of a team folder. |
is_team_folder | Whether this folder is a team folder. |
policy_manage_access | Who can add and remove members from this shared folder. |
policy_shared_link | Who links can be shared with. |
policy_member_folder | Who can be a member of this shared folder, as set on the folder itself. |
policy_member | Who can be a member of this shared folder, as set on the folder itself (team, or anyone) |
policy_viewer_info | Who can enable/disable viewer info for this shared folder. |
owner_team_name | Team name of the team that owns the folder |
access_inheritance | Access inheritance type |
If you run with -budget-memory low
option, the command will generate only JSON format report.
In case of a report becomes large, a report in .xlsx
format will be split into several chunks like follows; mount_0000.xlsx
, mount_0001.xlsx
, mount_0002.xlsx
, …