On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Josh Koffman wrote: > Hi all. I have a problem I've never had to solve before. I've been > asked to help setup a file repository that will work with both Mac and > PC clients. > > > What I'd ideally love is essentially some sort of web based ftp > server. Users type in the IP of the server machine and are presented > with a directory listing. From there they can navigate around and > download individual files or complete directories. Essentially I'd > love it if there was a way to mimic native folder access to things on > a remote drive. I feel the users of both Windows and OSX could > understand that, and drag and drop is pretty self explanatory now. > > Anyway, all ideas are welcome. I'm not sure what the best method for > this is, and I'm unfortunately not a web programmer so I can't make my > own way! Does it have to be Web based? If all the machines are on the same network, Windows filesharing from a Windows machine will work quite nicely on both. SMB shares (standard Windows file sharing) are well supported on both OS X and Linux (through Samba) - I actually usually have more trouble with the Windows side of it than the non-Windows, as Microsoft likes to keep changing how things work. I don't really know about Web-based frontends for downloading files like that, especially directories - that would require compressing the directory server-side with ZIP or something similar, then downloading that. Above a certain directory size, the request is likely to time out before the compression is done. Alternatively, an FTP server hosting the files, and a small Web server that hosts a Java FTP Applet might be an interesting way to go. Don't know of any concrete examples of this offhand though, sorry. > Thanks, > > Josh -Randy -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist