[AccessD] OT: Web site photo album

John,

This is truly amazing stuff!  My connection is high-speed wireless 
broadband and I'm not wholly certain of the upload and download speeds.  
I did have to wait about 50 seconds for the collage, but it was well 
worth the wait.  Thanks for sharing all this with us.

T

jwcolby wrote:
> 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,
>
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