Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-11-02 Thread Mick
On Friday 31 October 2008, Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:23:23AM +, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > > Have you considered the use of webdav, or webdavs? I believe it works > > fine with either MSIE and/or MSWE. Of course it works a

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-31 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:23:23AM +, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > Have you considered the use of webdav, or webdavs? I believe it works fine > with either MSIE and/or MSWE. Of course it works a treat with Konqueror. > The only challenge would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 13:06, Stroller wrote: > > > Ok, that's OT, but it's not that difficult. They just moved the ftp > > > functionality from Internet explorer to Windows explorer > > [snip] > > > No, they just REMOVED any extended func

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Stroller wrote: One simply uses "Go" then "Connect to server" - the menus indicate that the shortcut for this is Apple-K - and then types ftp://site.example.com in order to achieve an FTP connection. In the window displayed there is a + button allowing users to save "favou

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 13:06, Stroller wrote: > > Ok, that's OT, but it's not that difficult. They just moved the ftp > > functionality from Internet explorer to Windows explorer [snip] > No, they just REMOVED any extended functionality from IE. Windows > Explorer has ALWAYS done FTP nativ

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Oct 2008, at 12:05, Stroller wrote: On 29 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Momesso Andrea wrote: ... "To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer." Just do what it says, and you have the (cough) good old interface where you can do drag

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Oct 2008, at 09:40, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 09:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: you can't use winblows extorter to drop files onto an ftp server? I would have thought that was, er, basic functionality... Yeah, that's what I thought too. The GF suspected otherwise fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Momesso Andrea wrote: ... "To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer." Just do what it says, and you have the (cough) good old interface where you can do drag/drop etc. Hmmm... This is good news. Has

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40:43AM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 09:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > you can't use winblows extorter to drop files onto an ftp server? I > > > would have thought that was, er, basic functionality... > > > > Yeah, that's what I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 09:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > you can't use winblows extorter to drop files onto an ftp server? I > > would have thought that was, er, basic functionality... > > Yeah, that's what I thought too. The GF suspected otherwise for IE7 > and confirmed it by asking that n

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 09:26:01 Iain Buchanan wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 October 2008 08:03:55 Momesso Andrea wrote: > >> By they way I cannot cut away such a big part of the audience just > >> because they don't have a compliant browser. > > > > So your users are mostl

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 08:03:55 Momesso Andrea wrote: By they way I cannot cut away such a big part of the audience just because they don't have a compliant browser. So your users are mostly IE7? Then I'm afraid you have to resort to convulted ways to get around the

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 08:03:55 Momesso Andrea wrote: > By they way I cannot cut away such a big part of the audience just > because they don't have a compliant browser. So your users are mostly IE7? Then I'm afraid you have to resort to convulted ways to get around the convulted mess crea

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:15:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:10:37 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Why not just have them view the ftp site in the browser? > > > > > > User's aren't stupid and can cope with stuff - they will see a hierarchy > > > of folders just like w

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:10:37 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > Why not just have them view the ftp site in the browser? > > > > User's aren't stupid and can cope with stuff - they will see a hierarchy > > of folders just like what they see in My Computer and might be asked for > > a username and pas

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:38:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:38:09 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > I'm looking for a webapp to be installed in a lighttpd + mysql + php > > server that allows users to upload theyr own files and download shared > > files. > > > > Possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:38:09 Momesso Andrea wrote: > I'm looking for a webapp to be installed in a lighttpd + mysql + php > server that allows users to upload theyr own files and download shared > files. > > Possibly I need something that allows different levels of authorizations > over dire

[gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Momesso Andrea
I'm looking for a webapp to be installed in a lighttpd + mysql + php server that allows users to upload theyr own files and download shared files. Possibly I need something that allows different levels of authorizations over directories, for example a root that is world readable, a folder readable