[K12OSN] Web based file sharing

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:52, John Baillie wrote:

> A couple of teachers have asked if there was a way for students to
> transfer files to and from home. I took a look at sourceforge and found
> bytehoard http://bytehoard.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Does anyone here have experience with this or have suggestions for other
> packages provide this functionality?
> 
> If we do this it will most likely sit on a web server dedicated to this
> task.

Normal web/ftp servers tend to be insecure. You can probably
find something that runs over https, but if you only want to
keep ssh open to the outside, you can use winscp for file
transfers from windows with drag&drop or cut/paste action:
http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/index.php

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  Les Mikesell
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