[ale] Web based file storage

[Jim Kinney]

webmin/usermin has a web-based file management system. Basically you log in
from a web access and get a view of your files. If there are POSIX shares
set up and usable from the console, then they are RW from the webmin user
interface. Because it uses NO tools other than html and a butt-ugly java
applet on the client side
 it should work on any platform.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> On 7/19/2013 05:53, JD wrote:
>
>  We replaced dotProject with Redmine about 3 yrs ago and have been
>> extremely
>> happy. It has very lite file management, plus a wiki per project and you
>> can
>> connect a code repo to each project (git/svn/cvs), if you like.  No
>> indexing of
>> "documents", so the wiki really is the best way to capture project
>> information.
>>
>
> I tried Redmine but it doesn't fit our needs for project management so I
> stuck to dotProject (number one need was assigning multiple users to a
> single task, Redmine couldn't do it).  I wasn't really looking at it for
> file management, I just happened to notice it had a module and tried it out
> just in case.  The primary purpose of the dotProject install is the
> project/task managaement.
>
>
>  Also, limiting the interface to just web-based GUIs doesn't mean you give
>> up on
>> a solid back-end using whatever else you want.  WebDAV had lots of
>> security
>> issues over the years and never took off due to that. There probably are
>> many
>> more. There are implementations, but clients must support the protocol.
>>
>
> Except that IT declared Webdav a no-go so I can't use it no matter what. :)
>
>
>  For file management, we used Alfresco for years. It is documentum
>> strength, but
>> more like DocuShare until a custom interface is created. The default web
>> interface is a little clunky, but they have NFS, CIFS, webdav, and web
>> interfaces available.  The search and indexing was awesome.  It just
>> became too
>> cumbersome to upgrade due to a poor choice that I made early on - no
>> upgrade
>> path for the 2.9x versions.  These days, we provide only sftp access to
>> the file
>> server and encourage key-based authentication. We index using recoll
>> (completely
>> awesome!!!!)  Pretty much every platform supports sftp now with great
>> clients.
>> WinSCP rocks for our Windows users.  Filezilla works for others and the
>> ability
>> to mount using FUSE sshfs is very nice for those capable systems.
>>
>
> We (meaning the entire campus) has a DocuShare server but it's incredibly
> hard to use (everyone hates it) and we have to pay monthly per MB.  I might
> look at Alfresco and see what it can offer.  I need to avoid sftp for two
> reasons:  one is that many of the people that will be using the storage
> system aren't exactly savvy enough to deal with scp/sftp and two it's hard
> to use scp/sftp using only the browser based VPN client in use here (the
> actual VPN client is beastly and causes troubles so people stick to the
> browser client).  The browser client allows navigating internal web servers
> through its secure portal.  I might lean back towards sftp if I can
> convince them that it's not too hard to use.  But doing it from an iPhone
> or Android phone isn't as easy (finding a client that doesn't use ads,
> doesn't request excess permissions and doesn't secretly call home).
>
>
>
>  Or if you are Microsoft shop, don't they still give away Sharepoint?  It
>> is yet
>> another way MS links more and more programs together so you can't leave.
>> AD,
>> file/print, documents, internal web storage, MS-SQL, then add in all the
>> CALs
>> and desktops ... soon a company is totally screwed on their MS software
>> costs.
>> Of course, I'd never actually recommend installing sharepoint.
>>
>
> Nope, no Sharepoint.  Server is LAMP and the clients are all across the
> map.  I've got a Win desktop, a Linux desktop and some other Win systems
> (proprietary equipment control software).  Three others have Macs.  A
> fourth has RHEL.  And then several of those people have iPhones (which
> files do get requested sometimes via mobile).  A couple people have
> Androids but they tend not to do mobile work as much as the iPhone people.
>
> I'm aiming for shallowest learning curve for now.  I figured everyone
> knows how to browse a web page and if it looks like a typical tree
> structure, they can figure it out.  Adding client software and all sorts of
> other things starts to raise the bar a bit.
>
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