Dear List, About a year ago, I set up something for our lab which they know as The Dropbox. It's a system we use to allow people outside our lab to exchange files with us. Downloading files can be done through any web browser, and uploading files can be done with IE on Windows, a mount in Mac, and via many different methods on *nix. No password is required, though in the future we may consider one. This is implemented via WEBDav, a widely-supported extension to HTTP. We've worked with several groups so far, and all of them have enjoyed having this available - exchanging files through email being such a pain, particularly when the files are 25+ MB in size. As a result, I've been asked a few times by personnel how to create one of these dropboxes for their own use. So far I've answered these questions on an individual basis, but the recent "mail the CDs of pictures to us" in the OMRF photo contest got me thinking: maybe there would be some interest in learning how to set one up on a Linux box? So, I'm emailing the ISG and the LUG to see if people would be interested in setting up one of these for themselves or their lab. With Apache on either Windows, Mac, or *nix, it's pretty easy to do. Please let me know off-list, and if there's enough interest I'll put together a basic lesson on how to do it. Further inquiry could be done at either a Q&A session, or via list email on either the ISG or LUG list. Topics would include: - Setting up WEBDav - Password protection - Problems with IE - Basic user problems Setting up the repository is quite simple, there's just a few caveats I've come across in running one for a year or so. Let me know, Alan [log in to unmask]