[K12OSN] Web based file sharing

[Jason Neiffer]

Actually...I am really interested in this topic as well.  I like Byteboard
as a solution if we can't figure it out.

I am a teacher and I spent a month last summer at Indiana University for a
grad class on web design.  Their system is really cool: you look into your
account (it is Windows, but listen anyway :) ) and you are given a 100mb
storage drive, plus access to a large scratch drive for temporary storage
should you need it.  They have a web server that allows you to access that
drive from the Internet and upload and download files as you please.

I'm sure it was custom, but perhaps that is what we are looking for?  I am
not sure about y'all but among the largest problems with use of computers is
the issue of transporting files from school to home.  It's no problem for
me, because I have set up my own FTP server at home.  :)

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Jim Kronebusch
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 7:37 AM
To: 'Support list for opensource software in schools.'
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Web based file sharing

I am intrigued by this bytehoard solution but am dissapointed to see
that by default it seems to want to use its own user base.  Is there a
similar solution that is just an add on to the local machine.  What I
mean is something that will use the local user base and file
permissions?  Say I already have a smb and afp server and just want to
give the 500 local users on that server an easy cross platform access
from off site using this type of php client.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Petre Scheie
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:35 PM
> To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Web based file sharing
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > ---
> >   Les Mikesell
> >    les at futuresource.com
> > 
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