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

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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 [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:34 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
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