dropbox installer

There's a button you have to click. Have another look at the instructions. If you can't see the button try clearing your web browser cache, closing Frontview then reopen it again.

Particularly look at this image:

if you look at the image in my prior post, you will see I don't have that button. I think I am using a different version than you. I guess I will need WhoCares?

mine has the link, however when the dialog pops up there is no way to navigate the provided url, or even copy/paste it. (chromedev or ie9).

So this is a clean install of the Dropbox 0.9.7 add-on and it's not linked to your Dropbox account?

I never had this addon prior to today. It is not linked (as I have never input my dropbox userid anywhere)

I have tried both chrome or safari.

Not sure why it's not working for you. It worked for me when I installed this version recently using Safari on my Mac.

Try going to Safari > Empty Cache, empty the cache, reopen Frontview and go to the Add-on page and see if it's any different.

If you have SSH access you can get the link by doing

MDGM-NAS:~# cat /tmp/dropbox.admin

TeknoJnky wrote:
mine has the link, however when the dialog pops up there is no way to navigate the provided url, or even copy/paste it. (chromedev or ie9).

Note it down some place I guess e.g. in a text editor then copy/paste from there?

Yes, or type it directly into the address bar of a separate browser window.

However the instructions explicitly say to copy/paste, like you are supposed to copy/paste from the dialog.

It would be much better if the link button just opened the url directly, like clicking 'donate via paypal' or 'manage addon-so-and-so' buttons do.

maybe i am daft, but I ssh'd into the box and typed/pasted the code:

cat /tmp/dropbox.admin

What happens then?

AMRivlin-2:~ andrewrivlin$ ssh root@192.168.1.100
root@192.168.1.100's password: 
Last login: Thu Mar  8 00:16:54 2012 from 192.168.1.64
Last login: Sun Aug 23 21:47:20 1992 from 192.168.1.69 on pts/0
Linux AMRNAS 2.6.37.6.RNx86_64.2.1 #1 SMP Mon Aug 15 16:19:41 PDT 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
AMRNAS:~# cat /tmp/dropbox.admin
AMRNAS:~# 

did you click 'enable' on the global drobox, and then click the checkbox in the upper left and then click 'save' to the lower right to start the service?