[K12OSN] Web based file sharing

[Petre Scheie]

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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