Topic: give user access to their files via web

[jcornuz]

Hi there,

I would like to give users access to their files via web. The idea is to have a ibay with a login prompt; when users successfully log in, they can browse their own files (and groups).

This would only be available in the local network, obviously.

My question is: has anyone an idea how to do that easily? My own research didn't come up with anything conclusive. Thanks in advance.

Take care

Joel

[mazkot]

check this

http://wiki.contribs.org/Htaccess

[janet]

jcornuz

Maybe this

http://www.sonoracomm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=32

[janet]

jcornuz

...or maybe this

yum install --enablerepo=smecontribs smeserver-remoteuseraccess

[jcornuz]

Hi there,

Thanks for your replies. As it happens, none of these solutions are really what I am looking for. It is more like a samba enabled php file manager. Something like smbwebclient.

Take care,

Joel

[Craig Cabrey]

Is there a reason they can't use the samba server itself? e.g. \\server\username

Or for that matter an ftp client?

[David Harper]

Welcome to the forums.

If you enable FTP access to your server, you may be able to use FTPDrive to map the drive in Windows Explorer.

EDIT: Fix typo

[jcornuz]

Hi there,

Thanks for your help. I think //servername/share will do but I will probably add sslbridge (sslbridge.com) in an ibay as a backup.

I do feel very welcome to the forums 

Joel

[jjcuk]

webshare no use  http://wiki.contribs.org/Webshare
or oliver  http://oliver.sourceforge.net/

regards
Jim

[janet]

jcornuz

I would like to give users access to their files via web. The idea is to have a ibay with a login prompt; when users successfully log in, they can browse their own files (and groups).
This would only be available in the local network, obviously.

Your requirement and anticipated solution seem confused.
You say you only want local network access, but want users to access via web. You don't say if you want read only or read and write access via web.
Further you want them to seperately login.

If you have workstations connected to a local network, and the users login to the domain with a user name and password, then they get automatic access to their own files in their home folder.
Why do you want to complicate things by logging in to an ibay, and wanting web access just on a local network ? It does not seems necessary to me.

Perhaps there is more info that you have not told us as yet.

[janet]

jcornuz

http://webfilebrowser.sourceforge.net/

[jcornuz]

Hi there,

You are right, trying to keep things "to the point" brought confusion :-/

The idea is that I have a "public" network (wifi + open workstations) on which people connect. Among these people, *some* are users which I want to grant access to their data.
So the open workstation will have a default profile (WinXP) and I don't know the details of all the laptops of the users. So I think my safest bet is to have a web based local network access to users' data.

My idea is 1) encourage users to name their computer according their username (so they can use the //server/share with their own laptop)
2) as a backup (and for the public workstations) have a web interface - samba or ftp based "file manager".

I hope this clears the confusion - thanks for your ideas everyone

Take care,

Joel

[jonash]

What about Gollem in Horde?