File sharing ....

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:27 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> IIRC, another advantage of iFolder is the ability to share documents 
> over the Internet.  Check out the demo 
> (http://ifolderdemo.novell.com/iFolder/). If they recently switched from 
> a Windows environment, this really is the most appropriate solution.

They did not so much as switch from a Windows environment as add support
for more platforms that support .NET. Linux does that via mono. So
iFolder (a client is included in SUSE 10) works on Linux, Windows and
Mac OS X. For Linux other than SUSE, SUSE make the source available.

> Another option that comes to mind is WebDAV, but I'm not sure how it 
> works, nor how well it works.

This is not a file sharing system. It is a way to edit HTML pages.
WebDAV is a protocol that a web server and HTML editor can use to allow
editing of web content. Of course, I am sure that someone has hacked
this protocol to allow much more. So, I won't go so far as to say that
file sharing via WebDAV is not possible.

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Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB