This really isn't a CentOS specific queation but that is our server OS of choice. I manage a student file server and i would like to add cloud access to it. Basically i would like our students to have access to the same files at home that they have at school. This would allow them to start an asignment at home, finish it at school, and print it off without having to worry about losing their usb drive. I want it housed on our servers for backups and ease of access for our teachers when necessary. I have looked at Moodle but it has way to many layers that we are not interested in. I would like something like squirrel mail. A simple web login that then gives you access to your samba managed files. I have repeatedly searched for such capabilities but i have not found any that fit what i outlined above. Is there such a program out there? Thanks for your thoughts!
On 11/05/11 5:34 PM, Doug Coats wrote:> This really isn't a CentOS specific queation but that is our server OS of choice. > > I manage a student file server and i would like to add cloud access to it. Basically i would like our students to have access to the same files at home that they have at school. This would allow them to start an asignment at home, finish it at school, and print it off without having to worry about losing their usb drive. I want it housed on our servers for backups and ease of access for our teachers when necessary.thats really not a cloud, thats just an internet accessible file server as you describe. the problem is, any system that involves downloading a file, editing it locally, and uploading it back to the file server will fail, as users won't remember to upload, and leave multiple versions scattered about. Look into google 'apps' (which is really corporatized google documents). you edit your documents via your web browser, everything is hosted in googles cloud so its accessible everywhere. It supports written 'word' style documents, spreadsheets, presentations (powerpoint like) and a few other types. yes, it costs money per person per year (up to 25 users are free), but I'd have to assume there's an educational discount. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 19:34 -0500, Doug Coats wrote:> This really isn't a CentOS specific queation but that is our server OS of choice. > > I manage a student file server and i would like to add cloud access to it. Basically i would like our students to have access to the same files at home that they have at school. This would allow them to start an asignment at home, finish it at school, and print it off without having to worry about losing their usb drive. I want it housed on our servers for backups and ease of access for our teachers when necessary. > > I have looked at Moodle but it has way to many layers that we are not interested in. I would like something like squirrel mail. A simple web login that then gives you access to your samba managed files. > > I have repeatedly searched for such capabilities but i have not found any that fit what i outlined above. Is there such a program out there? > > Thanks for your thoughts!---- sounds like webdav is what you want Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
> I manage a student file server and i would like to add cloud access to > it. Basically i would like our students to have access to the same > files at home that they have at school. This would allow them to start > an asignment at home, finish it at school, and print it off without > having to worry about losing their usb drive. I want it housed on our > servers for backups and ease of access for our teachers when necessary.Have you looked at Gollem? http://www.horde.org/apps/gollem WebDAV / DAV could work too.
Thanks for all of your thoughts. I will look into gollem. The clients at school are windows 7. At home the clients might be any number of OS's. Eventually we might be using some sort of tablet devise probably Android based. Have any of you used Gollem? On Nov 5, 2011 8:16 PM, "Barry Brimer" <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
I understand what google docs offers but it comes with the need for an email address that i can not make students have, the inability for me to control who has access to which files, and no way to get teachers access without each student configuring that on their own. My teachers have enough to worry about. They will not use a solution that is more difficult then what we already use. Any solution has to be a clear upgrade with advantages for it to be adopted. Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:>On 11/05/11 6:29 PM, Doug Coats wrote: >> Thanks for all of your thoughts. I will look into gollem. The clients at >> school are windows 7. At home the clients might be any number of OS's. >> Eventually we might be using some sort of tablet devise probably Android >> based. > >see, another problem with a 'file' based solution is editing >software... ok, you have windows7 at school... what format are the >documents in, MS Office 2010 ? Users at home are going to have a >motley mix of older versions and other platforms, possibly not have the >same font sets, etc etc. The Google App approach bypasses this >entirely, the client editing software is the browser and the google app >Ajax stuff. The documents are the same regardless of what platform the >user is on. > > > >-- >john r pierce N 37, W 122 >santa cruz ca mid-left coast > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I did look at alfresco but, like moodle, it has way more going on then I need. Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:>Greetings, > >On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Doug Coats <dcoatshca at gmail.com> wrote: > >Your own instance of liferay/alfresco community edition exposed to >internet with the usual safegaurds perhaps... > >BTW, taking this example, what exactly are the usual "safeguards" >apart from enabling selinux in permissive mode and enabling firewall >with only http and ssh ports open? > >Some apps behave ugly in selinux enforcing mode. Any pointers? > >TIA > >-- >Regards, > >Rajagopal >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
That is exactly the search criteria i needed! I had never seen the term before or at least didnt remember it. Thanks! Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad Toby Bluhm <toby.bluhm at alltechmedusa.com> wrote:>On 11/5/2011 10:43 PM, Doug Coats wrote: >> I understand what google docs offers but it comes with the need for an email address that i can not make students have, the inability for me to control who has access to which files, and no way to get teachers access without each student configuring that on their own. My teachers have enough to worry about. They will not use a solution that is more difficult then what we already use. Any solution has to be a clear upgrade with advantages for it to be adopted. >> Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad >> > > >Try a search for "document management system open source." > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Doug Coats <dcoatshca at gmail.com> wrote:> This really isn't a CentOS specific queation but that is our server OS of choice. > > I manage a student file server and i would like to add cloud access to it. ?Basically i would like our students to have access to the same files at home that they have at school. ?This would allow them to start an asignment at home, finish it at school, and print it off without having to worry about losing their usb drive. ?I want it housed on our servers for backups and ease of access for our teachers when necessary.If you really want the same access from outside, you could use openvpn or pptp, but then you have to support a whole assortment of network login issues from machines you don't control.> ?I have looked at Moodle but it has way to many layers that we are not interested in. I would like something like squirrel mail. ?A simple web login that then gives you access to your samba managed files. >SME server would have something like this built in.> I have repeatedly searched for such capabilities but i have not found any that fit what i outlined above. ?Is there such a program out there?GUI wrappers over scp/sftp should work (winscp, fugu, etc.) should work if you open ssh. Even normal ftp via browser access should work. For something slightly fancier, you could use the file manager module from usermin, but it is java so it has a slow startup when you have to download the applet. It does seem odd that there is no common user-mode http server to access your own files. Does the "ubuntu one" service require ubuntu? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Am Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:34:09 -0500 schrieb Doug Coats <dcoatshca at gmail.com>:> This really isn't a CentOS specific queation but that is our server > OS of choice. > > I manage a student file server and i would like to add cloud access > to it. Basically i would like our students to have access to the > same files at home that they have at school. This would allow them > to start an asignment at home, finish it at school, and print it off > without having to worry about losing their usb drive. I want it > housed on our servers for backups and ease of access for our teachers > when necessary. > > I have looked at Moodle but it has way to many layers that we are > not interested in. I would like something like squirrel mail. A > simple web login that then gives you access to your samba managed > files. > > I have repeatedly searched for such capabilities but i have not found > any that fit what i outlined above. Is there such a program out > there?I think iFolder would do what you want (someone else mentioned it already). I don't know, though, if you need OES (Novell Open Enterprise Server) to make it useful in a larger environment with more users. It will take care of the synchronisation in the background. But I'm not so sure about the longevity of the project as such - I don't specifically track it, and it looks like not many updates got published over the last months... Rainer