Hi all I've been meaning to write about this little utility for quite a while. ExpanDrive comes for both Mac OS X and Windows. It allows you to connect to a remote server such as ours, supporting FTP, SFTP and WebDAV. WebDAV is by far the best protocol you could use for remote file transfers. It is secure, fast and easy to configure. The Mac OS X Finder utilises WebDAV in fact, when you connect remotely to another Mac as a network volume. Samba, although supported, doesn't seem to be very well implemented at all under Mac OS X. Windows, on the other hand, doesn't support WebDAV at all and that's quite an important oversight. And that's where ExpanDrive comes in. If you're one of those people who, for instance, has a Take Control bookshelf on our secure server, you could quite literally have our server opened when you log into your account on the machine and you'd see your bookshelf as just another drive or volume. If you have editable files, you are able to load them into a text editor and directly edit them on the remote volume.
If you're interested to know more about this little utility, its website is here: <http://www.expandrive.com> where you can download both Mac OS X and Windows versions. The utility sells for a very reasonable price, from memory, and as soon as I get around to it I plan on installing it on our Windows systems so that I can have our server remotely open when the machine starts. Much of what we do relies on access to the server and this will simplify the process greatly. Gordon ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
