You can create extra calendars and address books that you share between accounts of different family members.You can use this to automatically backup the contacts and calendar data of your smartphone onto your NAS, everytime your smart phone is in range of your WLAN.You can share (fully read and write) a calendar and address book between different devices and computers at home (Most smartphones, mail and calender clients on Windows, Linux and Mac support calDAV and cardDAV protocol).Since most home users do not own an Exchange server, ownCloud is an easy way to add such functionality to the QNAP NAS. You can share files between different user accounts using a web frontend or the WEBDAV protocol (although this only makes sense when exposing QNAP to the Internet or using a router with VPN functionality).Įven when not accessing your NAS from the Internet: QNAP currently lacks a calendar and address book server.
You can use it as a home based drop-in replacement for cloud file services like Dropbox or Google files. OwnCloud has some interesting features, that QNAP is currently missing out of the box: 4.2 Additional PHP preparation for ownCloud V6 and V7.
