Remote file access setup for staff and students

[genesis]

Hi

 

Currently the staff and students dont have access the Home drive and shared drives and they use external harddisk and USB to transport data. I would like to stop this and set up remote file access.

 

Please suggest if you know any free softwrae or paid software(Less expensive) which can don this functionality.

 

Any sugessions and hep much appreciated

Thanks in advance.

[3s-gtech]

Plenty of options:

 

Direct Access/Always On VPN (for school owned devices) - licensed

Remote Apps/RD Web Access - licensed

Foldr - paid

Home Access Plus - free but limited support now

WebDAV - free

plus other commercial and open source solutions.

[thebatman]

We use HAP+ (Home Access Plus+) for file access, Free but support is limited and a little flaky.

We also use TSPlus for remote desktop access, cant fault it, works on any web browser and very cheap and best of all, it works.

[FN-GM]

I wouldn't use HAP+ - Without an independent security audit we don't know how secure it is.

 

Have you considered something like Google Drive or OneDrive in Office 365?

[NB9457]

We use Foldr here, works well and support is good, cost isn't substantial either. As mentioned HAP+ support is limited (it is free after all), but it is good, not sure if it has been discontinued though?

[kennysarmy]

Another tick for FoldR here - setup & forget...

[TwistedHelixis]

All my primary schools use both Google and remote desktop gateway, both are free.

[JackCPickup]

NextCloud

[AlanD]

We are an RM school, and therefore use their Portico product. Cant help but think the best long term solution is only allow one Drive both in and out of school. Remote Desktop access is known to be very vulnerable to attack from external compromised PCs.

[TwistedHelixis]

Rd can be secure. We have it so it can only be accessed from specific domain computers, specific domain users and only if they have a certificate on the machine etc.

[FN-GM]

remote desktop gateway, both are free.

 

Its not free, you have to pay for MS licences as well as VM / hardware for the gateway and servers to run on.

[TwistedHelixis]

If you have old hardware and old server licence then it's just the connect license which is not much but yes it's not free.

[FN-GM]

If you have old hardware and old server licence then it's just the connect license which is not much but yes it's not free.

 

As well as RDS cals you have to purchase.

[sister_annex]

We use this Web based file access to Windows shares for Active Directory users. Not free but very good, easy to configure and works with AD. Also keeps everything on site so no need for cloud services