Listing contents of directory on web page

[Chojin]

At work we have two sites in the UK and Australia connected through a VPN. Browsing network shares seems very slow through Windows Explorer so I thought it may be possible to create a web page to give faster browsing abilities and having some mechanism for uploading files. Seems like it could get tricky though if particular folders on the network drive have restricted access, then I would somehow need to check folder security against the user.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience of this and knew of any tools or technologies that would be best suited to this application?

Many thanks.

 

[dave-lew99]

You could enable directory listing in the sever config then use a .htaccess method for user authentication - basic auth can be tied into an LDAP db as well as file based.

 

[malef!c]

There are some small PHP scripts that will do this and make it look pretty, icons etc next to the filename. If you are interested I will check the name tomorrow as we use it at work for the same reason you are doing it for - easy for people to browse!