Am I the only one that scp's up a file to my webhost, then turns on indexing for a folder for that person, and mail's them an http://www.blahblah.com/personname link and they can right click download it from there? If its someone halfway suave i show them downthemall addon for firefox and show them how to put it into the manager....done. I mail out web links. If it has to be protected, simple .htaccess file thrown in there with .htpasswd expects....
-- -Kevin "You can't turn a pig into a thoroughbred, but if you spend enough time and money, you sure can make a mighty fast pig" On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > or, would something like Net2FTP: > > http://www.net2ftp.com/ > > where the whole ftp "session" is server-side (with your web site, though > could be pointed back to wherever I suppose) and fairly idiot-proof? > > A client of mine uses this for their vendors and customers and it seems to > be fairly well received. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mark J. Bailey > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 09:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [nlug] Re: sharing files without ftp > > > though it has been 15 years since I last ran across this, at one time, this > was pushed as an alternative to FTP: > > http://fsp.sourceforge.net/ > > I seem to recall it logged in and worked much like FTP, just different > methodology. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steven S. Critchfield > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 08:59 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [nlug] Re: sharing files without ftp > > > Users all need help learning tools. > FTP isn't always NAT friendly. > > Your problem needs more information. > Do you need file uploading, or downloading? > > Uploading can be handled via a simple web script you can write. > Downloading can also be moved to a web script. You can even set > up whatever credentials you need before allowing a upload or > download. > > If you want to go even easier, set up a free email server that has > a good web interface and administer the users that way. Benefit being > that for a slightly more technical user, they could integrate it with > their current mail checking/usage tools. > > So you really would be better off giving a better description of the > problem you wish to solve. More details give better suggestions. > > ----- "Brian" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good way to share lots of files or even just a > > few big files without having to use ftp? There are some sites out > > there like Box.net, Drop.io, MediaFire, and Sharefile.. that offer > > this kind of service, but it would be nice to just to set up your own > > server. Is there a distro out there that provides this kind of > > service? I'm tired of training all our clients to use ftp and > > holding > > there hand while they figure out what client to use or web browser.. > > it just gets old and there has got to be a better way! > > Thanks for any help > > Brian > > > -- > Steven Critchfield [email protected] > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
