Topic: Upcoming features...

[Sam Freiberg]

Just wanted to say that E-Smith is a great product. You guys have done a great job. I work as a computer consultant and I plan on recommending it to customers, but there are a couple of things I was wondering if there were any plans for in the future. The biggest one is the ability to dial in so I could remotely administer the system through a dial up line. Also is there anything along the way of a common intranet? I am in the process of writing a web based application to allow users to clock in/clock out from a browser and if there is going to be a common look and feel I would like to follow it from the beginning.

Sam

[Kim Morrison]

Hi Sam,

For remote administration, we actually recommend using SSH and coming in over the internet.   (We have more info on installing SSH in our FAQ.)

If you have a dial up connection, you can ping the server, and when the server automatically connects to fetch email, the ping will keep the server up while you SSH in.  

Kim

[Kim Morrison]

Hi Sam,

Response #2 - "is there anything along the way of a common intranet?"

Actually, thanks for asking!  

Our ibays are a perfect way to create an intranet.  An ibay is a user-defined space on the e-smith hard drive. The Administrator can define access / passwording rules per ibay.  When an ibay is created, a directory is created which contains three folders associated with that ibay: a "files" directory (useful if the ibay is to be a file sharing or FTP site), a html directory and a cgi-scripts directory.  If you visit an ibay using a web browser by visiting the URL:

http://www.yourdomain.xxx/ibayname

the contents of the html directory are automatically displayed.  Perfect for an intranet, no?

Kim

[Kim Morrison]

Sam,

Finally, if you are licensing your web-based application as open source, we'd be happy to feature it on our web site.  

We'd like to start a section of our web page for e-smith compatible open source applications.

Regards,

Kim