[K12OSN] Web based file sharing

[David Sokolowsky]

Petre Scheie wrote:
> 
> 
> Also, there's FileZilla which supports file transfers over SFTP.  
> Graphical, very easy, only for Windows (sadly).
> 
> Petre
> 
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>

For Unix/Linux, there is Fish protocol.  This is supported by KDE and MC 
- not certain of Gnome.

Ex. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/kio_fish.html