I needed a way to allow owncloud to run on its own web server but use our SAN to store the user data so we didn't end up with duplicated data. I developed a way to seamlessly serve a "cloud" folder located in the user's SAN mounted /home directory via the /var/www/owncloud/USER/data directory using bindmount, ldap and python. Bonus? The users ownCloud directory is accessible to the user on any server which has their home directories mounted (basically all of them) from the command line. I'm definitely not a programmer, rather I am a SysAdmin. This was my first attempt at using python and I am sure it could be improved. I am happy to share my process and see what ideas it sparks.