Share Drive access from home

[Nausing]

Hi all,

 

The biggest request we hear from staff and students is to access their shares and emails from home.

 

We have OWA set up but no share access. Any suggestions??

 

We have a very minimal Moodle setup but looking at a full VLE revamp.

[ITGuyWestMidlands]

Home access plus

[stujham]

Agree with ITGuy, we have used for over 5years with little problem and there is plenty of documentation and also fairly simple to set up.

 

"Project Description

Home Access Plus+ Project, working with educational technicians to allow home access to files and other resources by just using a Web Browser or the Windows 8 Store App"

[FN-GM]

In my opinion I wouldn't use Home Access Plus+. There has been no security audit been performed on the product. You are potentially exposing all your data to attackers.

 

Im not knocking the product, I believe its very good. I am going to look at it as a way of accessing files on Chromebooks on the LAN. However I do have security concerns when publishing it to the internet.

[skell]

I agree with FN-GM. I recently removed HAP from our network for this reason and went with Google Drive / OneDrive access and VPN access for staff.

[danbuntu]

+1 one for Onedrive or google drive.

 

the is also MS direct access:

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759144(v=ws.11).aspx

[ITGuyWestMidlands]

In my opinion I wouldn't use Home Access Plus+. There has been no security audit been performed on the product. You are potentially exposing all your data to attackers.

 

Im not knocking the product, I believe its very good. I am going to look at it as a way of accessing files on Chromebooks on the LAN. However I do have security concerns when publishing it to the internet.

 

Its fine. Source code checks out.

[danbuntu]

Chromeos also has this plugin available:

 

 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/file-system-for-windows/mfhnnfciefdpolbelmfkpmhhmlkehbdf?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog

 

Mileage will vary though and it's probably not a good idea for students.

[FN-GM]

Its fine. Source code checks out.

 

Do we have an audit report from a security company, export etc?

 

Also there is the question about directly exposing a server on the production network to the internet.

[ITGuyWestMidlands]

What, like frog? Firefly? Sharepoint? But wordpress is ok, right?

[techy32]

Microsoft Remote Desktop Services......easy to setup and cheap licences

[FN-GM]

What, like frog? Firefly? Sharepoint? But wordpress is ok, right?

 

Im not really sure what your talking about. But none of the above would be directly exposed to the internet on any network I manage. For example in that past when Sharepoint was being used it was published via a web application proxy.

 

If you like open a thread about it as we are hijacking this one.

[sparkeh]

VPN or Direct Access if you have access to Enterprise versions of Windows.

Both are good options.

[mdrabble]

If you have noodle you can use the SMB block plugin http://moodle.org/plugins/block_smb_web_client. It allows access to shares such has shared drives/home folders.

[nigel_ford]

Foldr. VERY VERY easy to set up in school - make shared folders accessible to specific groups or everyone, and apps available for Apple/Android