I concur with what Mike and Mike have said. If you really need something to be secure you're going to have a pretty hard time using a third party service. That being said if all you really need is restricted access and encryption while going over the wire (i.e. keep idle attempts out not protect against a very good directed attack or subpoena), Dropbox and Jungle Disk both work very well.
If you do end up needing the security of your own server, I'd recommend either SFTP or WebDav over HTTPS. Both a relatively easy to setup and you can find good guides out there for any modern linux distro. You probably should also consider some form of encryption for the data on the server's disk such as Truecrypt. ____________________________ Sean O'Connor http://seanoc.com On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Michael Chase-Salerno <[email protected]>wrote: > Orion Vianna wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking for services that allows people to collaborate by >> sharing/uploading/downloading files online securely. >> I could setup SFTP in a server somewhere but I prefer to pay for something >> that won't require monitoring and maintenance on my part. It also needs to >> be easy to use for non-techies + built in backups & user file access >> controls would be nice (some type of admin interface) >> >> Those are the two services that I have found interesting so far. >> >> https://www.getdropbox.com/ >> >> http://www.jungledisk.com/workgroup/index.aspx >> >> >> >> Have anyone used dropbox? >> >> >> Thanks! >> Orion >> > > I have been using Dropbox for a while now. It works quite well and you even > get history of file versions. I haven't done any multi-writer sharing, so > not sure how that works, but the public read access works fine and the > integration with Nautilus is clean. > > As Mike said, the security is questionable, but depending on your > requirements, may be adequate. > > Also Ubuntu One is free with 2G and similar to Dropbox: > https://one.ubuntu.com/ > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Oct 7 - Glade - Linux GUIs made easy > Nov 4 - Google Wave > Dec 2 - MythTV > Jan 6 - Git >
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