jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Aug 4 15:52:06 CDT 2009
I love that collage. Some great pictures. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Tina Norris Fields wrote: > 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, >> >>