Hi Steve. All of our faculty have
wanted off-campus file-share access since Adam was a lad and we had previously discounted
FTP as an access mechanism. More recently, though, I am seeing a
resurgence of secure FTP clients that are developing into a form of swiss pocket
knife for accessing all sorts of cloud storage.
Microsoft, in their wisdom, added the FTPS
protocol to IIS7 but not SFTP and that slowed things down for a while but
vendors have accommodated to Microsoft’s persuasiveness and IIS7 now
seems to be one of the best Windows based, remote access file servers on the
market, particularly since it allows users to retain their regular active
directory security settings. Netdrive is noteworthy since it is one of
the few secure FTP clients that allow drive mapping.
Laurence
From: Steven M.
Plemmons [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
11:10 AM
To: Laurence Bates
Subject: RE: [MSUNAG] Possible
site license for NetDrive - a drive mapping client for off-campus, secure FTP
access
Laurence,
Just curious what
you are using this for?
Thanks,
Steve
From: Laurence Bates
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Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
9:34 AM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Possible site
license for NetDrive - a drive mapping client for off-campus, secure FTP access
Are any units using NetDrive from netdrive.net for secure
FTP access? NetDrive is a useful Windows tool for off-campus drive
mapping to secure FTP servers, including Microsoft’s IIS7 with
FTPS. They have an unlimited academic site license for $7995, which could
turn out to be an economical alternative to the Q100 price of $10 per user.
Laurence Bates