[Drupal] Drupal-powered dropbox?

[Hariths, Vedu]

Hello Scott,
I willing to donate some of my non-existent time to look at this a bit. I will keep you updated.

Thanks!


Vedu Hariths
Sr. Systems Consultant
OSU:pro
Center for Knowledge Management
Email:  vedu.hariths at osumc.edu
Phone: (614) 688 - 5318


-----Original Message-----
From: drupal-bounces+vedu.hariths=osumc.edu at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:drupal-bounces+vedu.hariths=osumc.edu at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Shelton, Mitchell
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:41 AM
To: Scott Merrill; Drupal Developers List
Subject: Re: [Drupal] Drupal-powered dropbox?

Hello Scott,

I'm unaware of any modules that plug into a system like that or replicate the functionality. The only exception being the dropbox at dropbox.com which has a module on drupal.org (http://drupal.org/project/dropbox), but I don't think that is what you are looking for. I doubt many folks are available to develop a module, but it would be great if your search turned someone up. When you are done with them you should send them our way :)

The only solution I can think of, and which you probably have already considered, is using Drupal itself. I don't think there are any drupal specific limitations related to uploads. I'm sure you can also find a way to associate specific uploads with specific users and then allow them to set permissions on the associated node throught something like nodeaccess. It might be a little clunky until you get the kinks worked out, but I think it could work with contrib modules. 

Thank you,

Mitchell R.K. Shelton
Web Developer
Web and Data Solutions
Technology Services
Arts and Sciences
154A Biological Sciences Building
484 West 
Columbus, Ohio 43210
614.247.7380
shelton.5 at osu.edu

On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Scott Merrill wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> 
> We use this http://turin.nss.udel.edu/programming/dropbox2/ installed on our web server to allow large file transfers. It's heavily used, and has been a real benefit to our department. I've got it configured to do LDAP authentication against our Active Directory servers. It works, but it takes some fussing to get installed and configured, and it's "Yet Another Service" to maintain.
> 
> I'd like to integrate this functionality with one of our Drupal installs, to minimize the number of discrete services we manage.
> 
> Is anyone aware of a solution like this for Drupal? I haven't found anything. Is anyone in a position to create a Drupal module for me? :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Scott
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