Soldato
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I'm looking for some software to run on a Windows Server to allow the transfer of files to and from our clients and consultants.
We have a lot of clients - some we deal with every day, some might be a one-off. Some are big corporates or public sector organisations, other are self employed people sending stuff in from their broadband at home.
At the moment we're using email but it's just not reliable enough - people keep trying to send us enormous attachments where our IT department limit emails to 20Mb, stuff gets stopped by spam filtering systems and in other cases our clients firewalls stop emails coming out due to size or file type content.
The obvious solution is to set up an FTP server which would overcome some issues, but I know a lot of corporates don't allow FTP from the desktop by default and my experience is people just won't get into the debate with their IT people about opening it up. I would therefore prefer something that runs over HTTP or HTTPS (or preferably both as required)
Other features I would like:
-Ability to setup accounts for regular users
-Ability to email a link to a one-off client to allow them to upload
-Email alerts when someone transfers a file to us
-Abilty to email a client a link to download a file from us, possibly automatic deletion or email notification once downloaded.
I know stuff like dropbox will do much of this, but for political reasons this must live on our network and be totally under our control. We already run other web servers so have the infrastructure in place to support another.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Cheers.
We have a lot of clients - some we deal with every day, some might be a one-off. Some are big corporates or public sector organisations, other are self employed people sending stuff in from their broadband at home.
At the moment we're using email but it's just not reliable enough - people keep trying to send us enormous attachments where our IT department limit emails to 20Mb, stuff gets stopped by spam filtering systems and in other cases our clients firewalls stop emails coming out due to size or file type content.
The obvious solution is to set up an FTP server which would overcome some issues, but I know a lot of corporates don't allow FTP from the desktop by default and my experience is people just won't get into the debate with their IT people about opening it up. I would therefore prefer something that runs over HTTP or HTTPS (or preferably both as required)
Other features I would like:
-Ability to setup accounts for regular users
-Ability to email a link to a one-off client to allow them to upload
-Email alerts when someone transfers a file to us
-Abilty to email a client a link to download a file from us, possibly automatic deletion or email notification once downloaded.
I know stuff like dropbox will do much of this, but for political reasons this must live on our network and be totally under our control. We already run other web servers so have the infrastructure in place to support another.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Cheers.