I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked for instead of an ftp server.
Anyone know of something/project that exists already?
Thanks! jlc
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked for instead of an ftp server.
Anyone know of something/project that exists already?
Some form of a webDAV, possibly 'skinned', comes to mind, as shared rights and ACL are well defined and readily supported; Clients in every Linux, OS/X or Windows release in active support [also on my iTouch and related portible devices], so far as I know; server side is trivial; uses the 'universal firewall traversal protocol on TCP/80 (plaintext) and TCP/443 (TLS) ;)
-- Russ herrold
Some form of a webDAV, possibly 'skinned', comes to mind, as shared rights and ACL are well defined and readily supported; Clients in every Linux, OS/X or Windows release in active support [also on my iTouch and related portible devices], so far as I know; server side is trivial; uses the 'universal firewall traversal protocol on TCP/80 (plaintext) and TCP/443 (TLS) ;)
Is it actually called "skinned"? Sounds like what I need...
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Some form of a webDAV, possibly 'skinned', comes to mind, as shared rights and ACL are well defined and readily supported; Clients in every Linux, OS/X or Windows release in active support [also on my iTouch and related portible devices], so far as I know; server side is trivial; uses the 'universal firewall traversal protocol on TCP/80 (plaintext) and TCP/443 (TLS) ;)
Is it actually called "skinned"? Sounds like what I need...
DAV aka WebDAV is just a protocol built on top of http for reading/writing files with access control and locks, on Linux, the server is typically implemented with apache and mod_dav...
the skinning he was referring to undoubtably revolves around building html/css templates for your webdav 'site' I'd imagine that you'd want to implement a simple web front end for this for casual users to upload/download single files for users who don't want to configure a webdav client.
another somewhat different approach would be to use a wiki like dokuwiki as your file storage. doku has authentication, supports as complex a user/group structure as you care to build, and I believe you can setup a regimented file storage area where different user groups have access to different sets of files. Doing it this way, all user interactions with your file repository would be via web browser.
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked for instead of an ftp server.
Anyone know of something/project that exists already?
You can have a look at Alfresco Community Edition. http://www.alfresco.com
Regards Lars Schelde
On 1/22/2010 6:31 AM, Lars Schelde wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked for instead of an ftp server.
Anyone know of something/project that exists already?
You can have a look at Alfresco Community Edition. http://www.alfresco.com
Alfresco should work for about anything but might be overkill if you don't need to build in workflow controls. A wiki that allows you to attach files to pages would be simpler, but might end up cluttered if you don't enforce some organization.
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Dumb question: samba?
I should have stated for customers/vendors as well, across the wire:)
The webdav approach sounds good, but building doesn't fit the time frame. I'll look at the other reco's.
Take a look at knowledgetree - similar to alfresco.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kt-dms/files/
The versions prior to 3.7 have the installer drop everything into /opt. 3.7 has a much more intrusive install - add's a couple repo's, replaces some rpms, weaved more into the system.
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:06 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Dumb question: samba?
I should have stated for customers/vendors as well, across the wire:)
The webdav approach sounds good, but building doesn't fit the time frame. I'll look at the other reco's.
---- webdav is far quicker/easier/simpler than any other recommendation offered.
Craig
On Jan 22, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:06 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Dumb question: samba?
I should have stated for customers/vendors as well, across the wire:)
The webdav approach sounds good, but building doesn't fit the time frame. I'll look at the other reco's.
webdav is far quicker/easier/simpler than any other recommendation offered.
The OP might want to check one of those PHP type bulletin boards or forums out there that allows uploads/downloads.
-Ross
On 1/22/2010 1:29 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
On Jan 22, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Craig Whitecraigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:06 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Dumb question: samba?
I should have stated for customers/vendors as well, across the wire:)
The webdav approach sounds good, but building doesn't fit the time frame. I'll look at the other reco's.
webdav is far quicker/easier/simpler than any other recommendation offered.
The OP might want to check one of those PHP type bulletin boards or forums out there that allows uploads/downloads.
A 'content manager' app like joomla or drupal might be easier to set up than alfresco.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked for instead of an ftp server.
Anyone know of something/project that exists already?
Thanks! jlc
I recently started investigating iFolder. I've not got it installed or tested yet, but the features look promising.
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