iPad File Viewing App?

[talksr]

Hi there,

I have a school who are using around 35 iPads configured with LightSpeed MDM for management.

They would like to be able to access their public area on the server from the iPads so they can view and save things between them.

 

The server is 2016 server. Can anyone recommend a good file browsing app? Ideally a free one as they don't yet have any credit on their VPP account.

 

Thanks in advance.

[kidpressingbuttons]

Set up WebDAV on a vm then use the free WebDAV app. Also the new Home access plus app is awesome and I use that personally.

 

My current school is using foldr which is awesome but obviously costs!

[AlanD]

We use RM's Portico - which gives access to personal and public areas via a drag and drop web interface.

...and of course, we have some cloud shared areas in Office 365. If its only between the ipads - then cloud would seem to be the vision.

[MicrodigitUK]

WebDAV Navigator app and a HTTPS WebDAV connection using IIS from the 2016 server. That will all work for free. However WebDAVnav+ has school mode for a small cost and I recommend the configuration and lockdown features that gives you. http://seanashton.net/webdav/

[qwerty94]

We use this: https://readdle.com/products/documents

 

Free on the App Store connects to Windows SMB to access different student/staff shares.

[edmokeski]

Second kidpressingbuttons' comment re: foldr. We use it and it's great, but obviously it costs rather more than WebDAV.

[talksr]

WebDAV Navigator app and a HTTPS WebDAV connection using IIS from the 2016 server. That will all work for free. However WebDAVnav+ has school mode for a small cost and I recommend the configuration and lockdown features that gives you. Sean Ashton - WebDAV Navigator for iPhone and iPad

 

Thanks everyone for your input. For now, I am going to use WebDav.

Does anyone have access to the install guides for WebDav? Never installed it before.

I have a 2016 server running IIS version 10. Have found older guides, but having trouble working it all out when using a newer version of IIS.

[talksr]

Hi everyone. Really struggling to find a guide on installing WebDav for a server running IIS 10. Has anyone managed to do it before? It seems our server is too new?

[MicrodigitUK]

Hi everyone. Really struggling to find a guide on installing WebDav for a server running IIS 10. Has anyone managed to do it before? It seems our server is too new?

 

Not set it up myself from scratch for some time. Basically you set up a iis virtual directory to your home drives server share and set up Basic authentication. Don't forget to get a SSL certificate and publish over HTTPS if you sing basic auth so it is secure. My server is a MS server 2012R2 and was set up by https://www.stormfront.co.uk as part of a WebDAV Navigator setup they did for me a couple of years back (so I didn't set it up from scratch). We added a bit of PHP to redirect users when they authenticate to there Documents folder so they don't need to know the long path. I'll se if I can dig out my redirection code.

[MicrodigitUK]

WebDAV in IIS by default is not installed with the Windows Server 2016. In order to get the WebClient windows service you need to activate the “WebDAV Redirector” feature I think.

[MicrodigitUK]

I'll se if I can dig out my redirection code.

 

// basic sequence with LDAP is connect, bind, search, interpret search
// result, close connection
$username = $_SERVER["LOGON_USER"];
if (strpos($username,'\\') !== false) {
                   $usernamesplit = split('\\\\', $username);
				$username = $usernamesplit[1];
               }

$ds=ldap_connect("ldap://someschool.local");  // must be a valid LDAP server!

if ($ds) { 
   $r=ldap_bind($ds,'someschool\WebDAVPHPLDAP','****password****');     // this is bind using the user someschool\WebDAVPHPLDAP
                          // read-only access
   //echo "Bind result is " . ldap_error($ds) . "
";

   //echo "Searching ...";
   // Search surname entry
$filter="(samaccountname=$username)";
   $sr=ldap_search($ds, 'OU=User Accounts,DC=someschool,DC=local', $filter);  
   //echo "Search result is " . ldap_error($ds) . "
";

   //echo "Number of entries returned is " . ldap_count_entries($ds, $sr) . "
";

   //echo "Getting entries ...
";
   $info = ldap_get_entries($ds, $sr);

$replacestring = '\\\\someschool.local\\userstores\\userspaces\\';

$directory = str_replace($replacestring, '', strtolower($info[0]["homedirectory"][0]) );

$directory = str_replace('\\','/',$directory);

$directory = 'Location: https://mywork.someschool.sch.uk/userspaces/' . $directory . '/Documents';


   ldap_close($ds);

header( "HTTP/1.1 302 Found" ) ; 
header( $directory ) ; 

} else {
   echo "Unable to connect to LDAP server";
}

?>