File Server

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Dimbert [mailto:s.dimbert at fhmr.com]

> If I understand WebDAV, it's not really what I'm looking for. 
> It seems to me
> that the idea of WebDAV is to allow multiple users to share 
> access to a
> single file on a server. That's not quite what I want. What I 
> want is the
> ability to store Word Documents, Excell spreadsheets, etc on 
> a web server so
> that I can access them from more than one location. Instead of carting
> floppies and CD's back and forth, I want to read from and 
> write to a web
> server.

What about FTP?  Or FTP under HTTP?  Or just HTTP?  The default RedHat 7.2+
RPM's for Apache come with commented configurations for file uploads.  You
would probably want to implement authentication, and possibly SSL security,
but there's no need to install some weird theming package for a simple basic
file retrieval function.

There's always SAMBA.