BADFASTBUSA

I am wanting to build something simple for my job. I need to make it so everyone in my company can easily transfer their files and documents onto the server just like you would a flash drive. Well, i need it that simple anyways so everyone can use it without having to jump through hoops to get things uploaded to the server... I also need to make it so i can have several (like 200) sections so each person can have their own backup space. what would be my best way to go with this.

Is there anything better than FTP? Ftp is limiting in the fact that you can't have any spaces ect in the file names and is possibly a little more in depth than some people at my work can go with a computer... Hell, some of them barely can turn a computer on LOL.




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Manyak

Do you have a server with a Windows Server OS on it, as well as an Active Directory domain?

If so the easiest way to do it would be to just share a folder/hdd on the network - from any PC or server you want to use - and set read/write permissions for Domain Users.

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Zetanuxi

I would use ,for now, a desktop computer with multiple gigabit LAN ports and run Ubuntu Server 9.04 with Samba. That's what I use for my home file server and it's 9-kinds of easy to set up. With Samba, there are not compatibility issues between Linux and Windows. And Ubuntu Server is FREE.

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DuckieHo

BTW, how many concurrent users? When you said "like 200 sections", does that mean at least 200 users?

You might want to look at teaming 1Gb NICs and at RAID solution if there are that many users. How critical is the data?

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BADFASTBUSA

The data is very critical, this is for a not for profit organization, and I am wanting to put this together for basically a place for backups etc... there are close to 200 users that will need access to using this from several different cities and remote locations. I need each person to each have their own space for uploads and downloads of files... Basically making this an online file storage center for them all.

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BADFASTBUSA

No sir, i don't have anything like that at the moment... Everyone in the whole company is using USB flash drives for safe keeping of their files right now LOL... I just got hired here and they made me their IT manager. Honestly I am very good at building rigs, but haven't messed with servers much at all except for some easy FTP stuff for an old website of mine.

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Zetanuxi

Since you want to do it over internet, it seems like FTP would be the easiest way. If you have just a couple different places that need access to this server, you could make a VPN, but a lot of that is based through specific routers that can be quite costly.

I'll check around for some more solutions. You might be able to set up an online storage site using your server and Apache. I'll check.

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jackeyjoe

a rather cheap option is getting a oldish computer, kitting it out with a raid card, ethernet ports ect, i'm planning to do that with an old P4 computer i have from a few years ago.

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Manyak

Well the easiest thing to do, in the long run, is to set up a full server in the office. Maybe even two (in a failover cluster, just in case one goes down for a while).

You'd be aiming for two things:

1) Roaming profiles, along with a shared folder mapped to drive Z: (or whatever)

2) A VPN server, where each user can have the connection file on their own USB drive and connect from their home through it

It takes a lot of work to set up a full domain and backbone from scratch, especially when you haven't done it before - you'll probably be sitting in front of the server for a week straight. But after everything's all said and done you'll end up with a network that's a lot easier to manage, and with less 'questions' from the computer illiterate employees. In the long run it's definitely worth it.

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