shared folder

guypetinon · Post by **guypetinon** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:11 pm

Hello,

I'm on Mac OS X and I want to share a folder on the network of my school to share files with my students.
so far I've done it via ftp, but i don't want to do it yet .
students have a standalone stack on their computer, with it they can download stacks, complete them and upload them on the server.
I use "libURLftpUpload" and it works well. But all this depends on the proper functioning of the internet connection.
I tried using ftp to share my disc but I would like to avoid.
How can I do the same thing using my shared folder?
when i am sharing my folder i have an URL like this "afp://..." . can i can use it with revolution like ftp ???

regards

guy

PS Sorry if my english is not correct ( je fais ce que je peux ,-) )

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:24 pm

Hi Guy,

I don't think it is a good idea to use the afp protocol to share files with a lot of students on a lot of computers. I believe this is slow and would cause a lot of traffic on the network.

If you want to give students access to a folder on your Mac, turn on personal web sharing and point your students to http://your.ip.address.here/~username/folder.

Best,

Mark

guypetinon · Post by **guypetinon** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:39 am

Hi Mark

Thank you,
I can do that for files to download.

But, to send files I don't know how to do with http !

Best,

Guy

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:36 am

Hi Guy,

If you also want to receive files from students, you could set up a guest account on your computer and activate FTP access for that account. There are more elegant ways to do this, but setting up a guest account is probably the easiest way.

If you create a new account with user name Guest and password guest, you can tell your students to upload files to

ftp://Guest:guest@your.ip.address.here/documents/

and of course you can turn on web sharing for this account and provide

http://your.ip.address.here/~Guest/documents

as a download address.

Having said this, perhaps you might want to set up something like Moodle on your computer. That might be safer and, once you know how it works, easier to maintain.

I'm also thinking that I might be able to help you with a very inexpensive account on my own server. Send me an e-mail if you're interested.

Best,

Mark