On 13/07/09 22:21, Stephen Garton wrote: > Evening All, > > Just want to canvas for ideas... > > What is the best way to share a folder with multiple users over > multiple machines? > > To put into context, I have been playing with UbuntuOne. I have a > Photos directory which is now [in the process of being] syncronised > for my user across 3 PC's. I have shared this folder with my wife, who > can now view, modify, edit and add to the collection. I would like to > expand this to both of our parents too (mainly for baby photos). > > Does anyone else have anything set up like this? I am thinking > primarily for photos, but would like to keep away from traditional web > apps (Facebook, flickr, picasaweb etc). I've thought of setting up a > directory on my web hosting that all the users/PC's could access/have > mounted. > > Any thoughts? > > Steve Garton > http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk
Hi Steve, I set up a "dropbox" type system at home on my Ubuntu server using Samba. It lets everyone add stuff to the shared areas (I have three now, Pictures, Music and Video) but not delete [or edit]. As I have two younger kids this works well. Every so often I go in and delete the rubbish. I wrote about how to set this up here: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/17/a-shared-drop-box-using-samba/ I reckon though, with some further tweaking it might be possible to add edit (read/write) but still not be able to delete. This apparently happens at one of our customers Samba shares, but I am not sure how I did it :-) Food for thought. Of course you didn't say if this was "local" sharing or you needed it to be publicly available. If the latter then I wouldn't use Samba. (You could look at sshfs for mounting directories over the 'net and use key pairs so you don't need passwords.) HTH Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
