On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:34:43PM -0700, Atom Powers spake thusly:
> WebDAV - none of the servers I've found support complex ACLs; most
> clients are unstable

This would seem to be the most promising but you are right: the
clients are a problem. I don't understand why nobody is interested in
making them better. They do work, mostly... but you run into various
silly problems.

ACL's on the server side of things can be dealt with in several
ways. I never need terribly complex ACL's anyway. Normal user/group
perms usually suffices and you can implement that in Apache.

> IPsec - complicated to set up, use, and support clients

Everything else you mentioned was some sort of file sharing technology
but this is a VPN technology. We are currently using an IPsec VPN to
run CIFS through. It stinks. Complicated, failure prone, etc. I would
really prefer to do webdav over https.

If the webdav clients were better a lot of people could get rid of
their VPN and save a TON on support costs. I am working towards
testing out webdav here again even if it is only in conjunction with
CIFS. Our people might tolerate some webdav weirdness if they could
get rid of the burden of dealing with the VPN.

sshfs is an option if you are a Mac/Linux shop. But of course most
people still use Windows. Foiled again.

I use sshfs to access the company file server from my Linux
workstation. It's great.

-- 
Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org

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