[dba-VB] Goin' for the (browser based) gold

It is just such an easy install for small clients and has so many nice
features and easy interface that with a little training they can manage much
of their own data receipt and transfers.

...But for us programmers and administrators it provides so much more. 

It allows central control, with private ports for administration control
(also blocks remote changes in administration privileges and can bind remote
admin to specific IP addresses), sets users with their own passwords, level
of access, level of data transfer compression, restricts sizes of
transferred files, access times, speed control, blocks certain types of
interfaces or sets strict IP range limits, can set SSL/TLS private and
public keys, support for FTPS, GSS and Kerberos and has a command line
interface and public classes for fine grained data control. 

There is more but I can not remember all the features but you can see that
it goes far beyond just basic FTP.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 7:10 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Goin' for the (browser based) gold

Hi Jim

Why not? I've never had the need for extra features. The FTP service of IIS
has been fine.

/gustav


>>> accessd at shaw.ca 18-03-2010 19:21 >>>
Hi Gustav:

Why not try FileZila...many of my clients use this package because it is so
secure. (http://filezilla-project.org)

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:14 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Goin' for the (browser based) gold

Hi John

Too bad.
Could you persuade the client to send the file via FTP to your server? Then
you could have a folder change service running picking up the uploaded file
and pass it on to be processed.

/gustav


>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 17-03-2010 16:00 >>>
It appears that ordinarily they get a list of zips directly from their
client, in a CSV.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> The big question is how the lead data get into the worksheet. Are they
extracted/exported from somewhere or are they typed in manually?
> 
> If the latter, they could as well type data into a (web)form of yours. If
you are not in the mood for creating your first web application, the simple
method is to create a winform in a small Windows app which you leave running
on a (virtual) machine for which you grant the client remote access. A
splendid and free method for this is to use LogMeIn Free.
> 
> /gustav



_______________________________________________
dba-VB mailing list
dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com
http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb
http://www.databaseadvisors.com