Re: Data Transfer Software

That sounds like the best option yet. I'll have to give that a try. I have not
done any WEBDAV work yet, so that will be interesting.
These Windows clients are so bad because most of them are totally up for
switching to linux. It's the few that can't for some reason that require
these funny setups...

Thanks for the advice!

Nathan


On Tuesday 31 August 2004 10:17 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Nathan England wrote:
> > I'll check that out. Ideally it has to be simple. I want my customers to
> > be able to connect to a linux off-site storage to transfer data across
> > the net. WinSCP3 sounds good. I'll give it a try tomorrow. I appreciate
> > it.
>
> Another idea is to use WEBDAV. It is included with Apache HTTPD 2. It can
> be secured using HTTP authentication mechanisms and SSL (HTTPS).
>
> Windows and Mac OS X clients provide DAV clients. DAV clients are
> available for Unix, Linux, BSD, etc.
>
> I don't use Windows, but it should be easy. Right click on desktop to
> create a folder. Right click on folder to setup the mapping by putting in
> the HTTPS URL to the webdav folder. The drag and drop or use it like any
> local (or like SMB) folder.
>
> You could also use Microsoft Windows File Explorer to upload and download
> files via DAV.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>

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