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
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 Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at 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! > jlcI recently started investigating iFolder. I've not got it installed or tested yet, but the features look promising.