[Klug-general] Online file storage (is it a hard drive, is it cloud)

[David Halliday]

How about a SFTP server?

*nix boxes can mount these
dose boxes can see them in explorer

But you will need to copy a file up/down to edit.

Either that or you can look into a VPN/Samba solution (someone else here was
looking into VPN and found it difficult to get started with)
Also worth a look: stunnel http://www.stunnel.org/
<http://www.stunnel.org/>You can also run protocols wrapped using SSH under
Linux, no idea about windows.

On 24 February 2011 16:52, Alan Buchel <alan at communitytechnology.org.uk>wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> I have been asked to set up a "cloud" system that will allow an
> organisation to store and access all their data online, accessible from a
> variety of OS's.
>
> Looking at existing services such as ubuntu one and wuala.com (1GB is free
> there BTW) and having tried them, they seem designed more for "replicating"
> your data to an online service. It's a nice interface sure, transparent to
> gnome or windows (drag and drop and open file directly), but it seems to
> keep a copy of everything on the workstation. Since the shared data is
> likely to exceed 1TB this is probably inappropriate since some of the
> clients will be really low spec machines.
>
> The budget justifies getting a dedicated DC server, but even if I did this,
> it's the multi-OS client (interface to the service) that is missing. In
> Linux I just use sshfsmount, but also would need a non-technical way of
> getting doze to mount the shared space...
>
> Have had  dig with a "Cloud Server" (the so named Ubuntu distro) I just
> cant figure out wtf it does really...
>
> Does anyone have any experience or recommendations?
>
> Alan
>
>
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