[AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

Well, I got on ok. Couldn't do too much because of the slow connection I
have - I could write a MDB in the time it takes to navigate pages...
It looks good. Is that a freebie from MS. Does it have a Forum?
Will you be leaving it available for us Listers to transfer files?

Ta mucho

Max
Ps nice easy password to remember.  I hate the difficult ones like "John"



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: 04 August 2009 16:01
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

I have rebuilt my Windows Home Server.  One of the things WHS allows is to
add a web page that can 
then be accessed from outside of your network.  To see the public face just
go to

Colby.Homeserver.com

It ended up being fairly trivial to get that working, three port forwarding
entries in the router 
and allowing WHS software to do something to the router (scary when you
haven't a clue what that 
something is).  WHS uses IIS to then serve up this web page.  Log-in allows
users that you define to 
see shares on the server.  Typically it is used to share photos and video,
but it can really be any 
directory share in a certain path on WHS, all set up by user / password /
directory / rights.  Oh, 
and it also allows a remote access to other machines on the network, though
I haven't gotten there yet.

Anyway...

The access to the shared directory is usable but crude, photos have to be
"downloaded" and displayed 
in an application of your choice on the remote computer.

So someone came up with an add-in called WHIIST which allows you to create a
photo album where you 
simply create directories and then drag and drop photos into directories,
again in a path specific 
to this album, and voila, the visitor sees photos that you place there.  To
give you a taste of how 
this works I have created a temporary user / password:

User: AccessD
PW: ^6tfc%5rdx

Go to:

colby.Homeserver.com

and login to see the shared directory where you can add, delete and modify
anything in that directory.

which you can use to access specific directories and see some photos at:

colby.homeserver.com/AccessD


Give it a whirl.  I will be taking this AccessD user down in a day or two so
try it now if you want 
to see what WHS and WHIIST can do.

This whole AccessD thing took about 20 minutes to get working using this
WHIIST add-in.

I have created my own custom user for my extended family, and placed a huge
quantity of photos out 
there.  What would be really nice is to be able to add captions etc and that
is where this WHIIST 
add-in stops short.  It is EXTREMELY easy to set up, create directories for
"albums", drag photos 
in, and you are done... but what you see is what you get.

OTOH, this web page is just an IIS creation and so I should be able to find
some other tool for 
creating photo albums which has more flexibility.  Which brings me to the my
question, do any of you 
folks use an album widget on a web page which has the ability to add
captions and such.  I am not 
into complexity so if it is a lot of work I will just stay with what I have.
The photos are the 
objective, captions are just icing, which I would like, but not if the cost
is too high.

Thanks,

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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