I am just touching base, you may be real busy or may not have gotten my originally reply, I am interested. thanks, Danny Alan Shields wrote: >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] > > -- thanks, Danny G Smith --------------------------------------------------------- OMRF Intramurial Computer Manager / Sr UNIX System Admin --------------------------------------------------------- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Mon-Wed phone(405)271-8954 / Wed-Fri phone(405)271-6130 ========================================================= UNIX air conditioned environment, keep the windows closed