[Chester LUG] FTP Appliances

[Stuart Burns]

George you grossly overestimate my programing ability.

10 PRINT "HELLO
20 GOTO 10

is about my limit.

I'd love to deploy a linux machine, because for starts on cost basis alone a
W2K3 licence is over £400 and the server only cost £190 brand new from Dell
with our discount (Ok so its not RAID but its not needed here really). Then
EFTP (Windows only at another £1000ish).

Windows licencing gets expensive, quickly!

On a seperate note this Accellion, whats the odds is BSD based ? ;)

Once we do have something in place though George, its gonna be BOFH time
because its going to be 5MB limits! I can see the tears and tantrums now :)


On 24/07/07, George <george at goatadsl.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Stuart Burns wrote:
> > It's a long shot but does anyone know of either a) A decent, inexpensive
> > file transfer appliance (less than the $4000 of the accellion devices)
> > or b) Where I can download an application that does the same thing.
>
> It depends really how incredibly easy incredibly easy is... Both WebDAV
> and SFTP (via WinSCP) are quite easy to use but they still might not be
> easy enough.
>
> I haven't any experience of web based ones but even if you had to write
> one yourself it should be possible to put one together within a day at
> most. You shouldn't have to bother with authentication, a one time
> random URL for each uploaded set of files e-mailed to the intended
> recipient should be fine.
>
> If you retain the leave large file attachments enabled on the mail
> server then there's going to be no incentive for people to remember to
> do this other thing though. You could perhaps use a filter on your mail
> server to strip out all the attachments, save them to another server and
> put a hyperlink to their new location in-line in the message. Of course
> whatever method you use for this you still have the problem that the
> files are stored somewhere on your network using up space.
>
> Another, more BOFH'ish solution is you apply a size limit but make it
> random somehow. If people ask about it say that e-mail is unreliable for
> large attachments and suggest they resend. Soon they'll learn the error
> of their ways. Mwhahahahaahahaahahahaahaha. Ahem.
>
> George
>
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