Hello djhomeless,
I use SME as a server from home and access it regularly from work ... thats about the only place.
I guess it has been a bit of a struggle in the begining to access my server from outside while I was really new to linux ... but now I don't have as much trouble setting up things.
I myself think the security is a good thing if you give people the option to make it easier to access from outside they might set it up wrong and cause them selves too much heart ache and the rest of the comunty with there problems.
I don't mind searching through the forums for contribs etc to make access easier ... but a secure way ... I have learnt a lot from everyone here and am very pleased with the was SME works. So much so the I even setup a server at work for e-mail/web/ftp/vpn etc.
Our company has been in the stone ages for so long before I stated in this position ... so my boss was very pleased with the result when he used the secure webmail feature for the first time from China just last week and was amazed that he could comunicate with people easily ... internally as well as send mail externally and be able to see all his current e-mails and sent mails.
I love the security ... give people the option and they WILL for sure set it up wrong. Just like I had the problem with people at my work getting addware problem with IE. You have the feature to lower the security ... well some people set it to the lowest setting and off course got hit with all sorts of problems.
I think a better way to tackle external access options and other topics is to have well documented help guides of the most common addon features in an easlily accessibe area where people don't have to do too much searching to find what they require.
I know you have the contibs area but you still have to search through all the peoples folders to find something if you don't know what your looking for.
Maybe the comunity can setup a section like the smeplus updates but for addons. You could add a good description of the addon and then link it to a section where there is a bit of a run down of what it does and then links to a well documented install guide ... the links to the correct contribs or other websites etc.
Maybe even have the area setup so as experienced people can help fix or update the contribs as well like in the smeplus updates pages ... that seems to have gone quite well ... even I have helped in fixing a few links etc.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Tib
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