jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Aug 4 11:28:49 CDT 2009
Max, > Is that a freebie from MS. Does it have a Forum? WHS is not free. This remote login is a part of WHS, so once you have WHS that part is free. WHIST is a freebie. That is an Add-In to WHS which creates the photo album. Even without WHIIST you can set up password protected shared directories. > Will you be leaving it available for us Listers to transfer files? I could do that I suppose. I am not really sure what kind of security issues I create with these user / password stuff. After all this is a shared directory / user on my WHS server. And the username / password becomes part of google history if you know what I mean. > > Ps nice easy password to remember. I hate the difficult ones like "John" ROTFL. Unfortunately WHS REQUIRES a certain difficulty level for the password or it will not allow you to turn on remote access. There are 4 properties that can make up the difficulty. 1) MUST contain 7 characters 2) Must contain 3 out of 4 of the following: a) Special Characters b) Numbers c) Upper case letters d) Lower case letters. So I MUST have three of the difficulty "properties and it must be 7 characters or it will not allow that user to log in. Now look carefully at my password and you will see that it uses: Special characters Numbers Lower case letters Beyond that it is a simple "drag your finger down the keyboard in a line..." kind of thing. Given the "requirements" for the password, what password would you like to have? Shall we have a "suggest the easiest to remember password" contest? The winner gets... are you ready... to use his password... ;) John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Max Wanadoo wrote: > 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, >