[K12OSN] Web based file sharing

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Fri May 21 14:18:28 UTC 2004


...and then search www.freshmeat.net for 'web folders'

Petre Scheie wrote:
> check out www.webdav.org, specifically the Projects area.
> 
> Petre
> 
> Jason Neiffer wrote:
> 
>> 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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