vpn?

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quick question
the wife has won a contract training foster parents on social care, she needs a server setup so that the trainees can log in from home and update files/fill in questionaires/download documents etc on the server in our house. currently we will not have anymore than 10 trainees at a time. There will be no streaming vids or anything like that. The connection has to be secure because of the nature of the material. Whats the best way to do something like this? VPN? if a vpn is the answer could someone be good enough to give me a brief description of how to set one up?

chhers all

 

cheers for the reply can you give me a biref idea?

 

Sparky's suggestion is sound. Another option is to setup an FTP server whereby the trainees can login with their own accounts to upload and download documents.

- Alex

 

Yeah, VPN a bit OTT.

If this is a temporary thing, I'd set up some kind of web hosting with a third party and do everything through them. Students can upload, and you can download, all with someone else managing the security.

Given the fact that you are asking these questions, I wouldn't recommend you opening up your 'home server' to outside users.

 

hi guys,

Im looking into this share point services solution as was suggested a few weeks ago, can anyone talk me through the stages i would need to go through in order to get this working over the net? would i need my own static ip? also can anyone reccomend a good server for me? as i said before we will have no more than ten trainees at any one time so it wont be under any huge strain from users.

Thanks alot in advance folks

 

If you don't want to setup/host the server yourself you could opt for a provider offering a service.

Just Google something like "hosted sharepoint server" and you should get some options. Then you can just rent what you want/need

 

dropbox

 

hi all
thanks for the reply guys
regarding dropbox, is it possible to set permissions on files and folders? for example i would like some files to be viewable by certain members and not others. would i require a seperate account for each user or could i have a single account that allows multiple users to log on with different usernames?

cheers all