A self hosted thing like dropbox ( for Linux )

[interele]

We have been looking for a server that would allow students

to hand in work electronically. At the moment we have a moodle

box with everything removed except assignments and it's fine

but it strikes us a massive overkill. Has anyone got any suggestions

 

Ta

 

M

[pcstru]

Not self hosted but how about Plannerlive?

[teejay]

Owncloud does what you want - ownCloud.org

[BKGarry]

https://owncloud.org/install/ has always interested me :-)

[interele]

We have tried ownCloud and we have never got the document preview/edit to work that well.

Even though we are a LibreOffice place the documents often don't display correctly in ownCloud

 

M

[SHimmer45]

been looking at using a "owncloud" but been struggling to get the group and user mappings to function correctly through LDAP authentication, and thats even before i look at mapping user folders. lots of conflicting information about how to do it.

i get the feeling that its still very much under development?

[interele]

I got the user and group mapping to openldap ( ie rfc2307bis - openSUSE ) to work quite well but it was a nightmare.

I can send you what worked for me if you want. We only do Linux here so if it's AD then I'm lost too

 

M

[SHimmer45]

its a 2012R2 domain, might look to see if the windows version is a bit more friendly

[jinnantonnixx]

Syncthing

 

Or, although there have been a few question marks over their privacy policy, maybe Bittorrent sync?

Should I Use BitTorrent Sync Instead of Dropbox?

[chris_uk]

Owncloud with Active directory login's. We are just moving all of our gov'nors over to it. We also use it for sending out large files, ISO's off to be duplicated, photos for the press, files for other network managers when students move schools. It's awesome.

[Arthur]

Has anyone got any suggestions

AeroFS Private Cloud?

 

I know you mentioned self-hosted, but have you considered Google Classroom / Google Drive?

 

Syncthing

... or Pulse (which is the new name for Syncthing).

[cpjitservices]

We have a fair few customers on our own self hosted cloud running on Owncloud. We use CentOS servers.

 

Nice and easy.

[rob_coles]

Is it possible to use owncloud with free mobile apps?

[SHimmer45]

We have a fair few customers on our own self hosted cloud running on Owncloud. We use CentOS servers.

 

Nice and easy.

 

are you mapping user folders to Windows Server?

[cpjitservices]

Nope, we just sell it to customers over the internet.