If you want to access a drive share over the net, you have a few options: 1. WebDAV (http) 2. ftp/sftp 3. ssh + drive mapping (http://www.bitvise.com/file-sharing.html for Windows)
Here are a few links to check out: http://glosoli.blogspot.com/2005/10/map-drive-via-ftp-or-webdav.html http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MappingConnectingADriveLetterToAWebDAVOrFrontPageWebsite.aspx http://www.hss.caltech.edu/help/web/webdav/accessing/windowsxp http://www.cascss.unt.edu/solutions/howto/mapdrives/webdavvista.php http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jp107/xp-remote/ssh-map/ Here is the Apache 2.2 DAV documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav.html If you are using Windows and you want to use IIS, check out the docs for the version you have. IIS 7 has a new WebDAV extension. I don't know relative performance numbers offhand, more than likely the speed of the Net connection is going to be the bottleneck whichever solution you choose. On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Matthew Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > After looking at the cost of online storage, it looks like my friend will > probably go with a local raid array for his 2TB. I'm looking through the > stuff available at newegg, but haven't made up my mind yet. > > My question is about making the array available over the internet. I > assume that once we get the array set up it will simply show up as a drive > on his computer. How would we go about making it accessible? Can we just > share it? How do we make it accessible over http? I assume we would need > to get a static IP from his ISP. Any other concerns? > > Thanks! > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.emergentpath.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283732 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
