Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-29 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Frank Staals wrote: > Ciprian Dorin Craciun writes: > >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) >>> >>> More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors >>> a kind of p

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-29 Thread Frank Staals
Ciprian Dorin Craciun writes: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) >> >> More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors >> a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate  their personnal data >> from a

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-29 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) > > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate  their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any device

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Frank Bonnet
Thanks Marcelo seems useful for me let's try tomorrow Le 28/05/2012 16:51, Marcelo Celleri a écrit : Hi, You could try sprakleshare, it's something like dropbox in your own server. Marcelo. El vie, 25-05-2012 a las 18:41 -0500, Derek Ragona escribió: At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wr

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Marcelo Celleri
Hi, You could try sprakleshare, it's something like dropbox in your own server. Marcelo. El vie, 25-05-2012 a las 18:41 -0500, Derek Ragona escribió: > At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: > >>On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bon

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:11:21 +0200 Frank Bonnet wrote: > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... > ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablet

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access > and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) NFS + AMD > The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Aim for device drivers & servers that can interact as client & server pair

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to acces

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...) "Access" is still a bit vague, but security/openvpn may be part of the answer: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source.html for windows users i would recommend mpd - it provides VPN in windows standard, just use windows "add

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As he said in his post, NFS is the first place to start. It's available on FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, other Unix derived systems, and Windows 7. The one thing to be careful of is that it works best when you have all home directories on central servers and all access is on client machines. It is

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...) Well, this should reduce the cloud to an sftp-server or - if their stuff isn't security sensitive to an ftp-server. depends on connectivity. If you just wan

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:11 AM 5/25/2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC,

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html 30.3 Network File System (NFS) Use NFS : Define each computer as both "Server" to serve to other users(s) and "Client" .to see the other server(s) . If there are Windows computers , you may also use SAMBA : http://ww

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...) yes NOW IT IS CLEAR. C

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well ... My goal was NOT to start a flame war around the "cloud" term ... you didn't. You just started a flame of requests to be more precise and go down from the clouds to earth. So finally write down what you need, and we most probably can help you. But... if you want to just sell some sol

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:47:24 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > $ man -k cloud > http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-05-25 Very nice, but please compare: http://xkcd.com/908/ :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 May 2012 12:11:43 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > > Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and > > share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) > > The access must be easy and possible from as

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Frank Bonnet wrote: Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my nat

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Wojciech Puchar on Friday, 25 May 2012: > > > >With apologies to Joni Mitchell: > > > >I've looked at clouds from both sides now, > >From up and down, and still somehow, > >It's cloud illusions I recall, > >I really don't know clouds, at all. > > > >Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summari

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 16:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: [big snip] Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! On 25.05.2012 17:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: > >> On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> >>> On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> > With apologies to Joni Mitchell: > > I've looked at clouds from both sides n

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't kno

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Frank, Am 2012-05-25 10:11:21, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) LOL :-P :-D > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywh

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype perfectly. fashion is quite often deciding fact

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 14:16, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) look at clouds. More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Pe

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the antithesis of 'cloud'?" I would never invest a dime or a single bit of data to a cloud venture. how one can invest of something that isn't even defined clearly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i think most people talking about "cloud" solutions have really CLOUDY idea of what they want. Far too much marketing, far too little (if any) description of the needs. On Fri, 25 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/05/2012 10:11, Frank Bonnet wrote: a kind of private cloud Uh... Isn't '

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) look at clouds. More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 25 May 2012 12:59:19 +0200 Frank Staals articulated: >As others have also already hinted at, I think you should be more >specific about what you want your ``cloud software'' to do. Without >that you will get K answers suggesting some software system that try >to solve K completely differen

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Staals
Frank Bonnet writes: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) > > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... > ( Personnal PC, Mac, sma

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almo

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) > > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any devi

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/05/2012 10:11, Frank Bonnet wrote: > a kind of private cloud Uh... Isn't 'private' essentially the antithesis of 'cloud'? Unless you have quite a lot of hardware to play with. I believe what you are looking for is what we old codgers would describe as a "Web Site"... Cheers,

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) > > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... > ( Personnal PC, Mac, smar

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) > > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any device