Laplandz
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Hi all, i have a customer (financial brokerage) who is requesting the following:
store files which consist of 90% pdf's, 10% word/excel/jpg in a self-hosted cloud based storage type area (they have a decent hosting package with 1and1).
what they want to happen...
The ability to save a pdf to a folder on a self-hosted cloud-based system, I.E. no local copy is saved, it saves to the cloud and to the cloud only.
When browsing that folder, double clicking a pdf will open it as if it's local (have tried FTP, but when opening a pdf it tries to open via chrome or says it's unavailable which is caused by it going to temp internet, etc first).
so far i've tried
Windows web folder which worked except when trying to interact with the files it will open files via http protocols so pdf's won't open through sumatra or adobe.
CyberDuck for whatever reason stopped the machine from seeing a locally based NAS, didn't investigate as customer was anti-CyberDuck suggesting it was clunky and somehow interfered with the locally based NAS.
OwnCloud seems rather complicated or over the top, think it's difficult enough/time consuming to avoid unless others suggest it's worth it.
I've looked at many other suppliers and FileCloud seems to offer what i'm after except they give a tonne of other stuff i don't need or want to supply to other customers at this present time to cover their costs.
Would be interested to hear what others may suggest who have been in similar situations. My customer has budgeted rather "healthily" so paying for software isn't going to be an issue but i'd rather not go through the trial-and-error routine when i have access to such a high-level-support forum as TechNibble (can you feel the brown-nosing going on there!)
All scorns, warns and help appreciated..
Lee
store files which consist of 90% pdf's, 10% word/excel/jpg in a self-hosted cloud based storage type area (they have a decent hosting package with 1and1).
what they want to happen...
The ability to save a pdf to a folder on a self-hosted cloud-based system, I.E. no local copy is saved, it saves to the cloud and to the cloud only.
When browsing that folder, double clicking a pdf will open it as if it's local (have tried FTP, but when opening a pdf it tries to open via chrome or says it's unavailable which is caused by it going to temp internet, etc first).
so far i've tried
Windows web folder which worked except when trying to interact with the files it will open files via http protocols so pdf's won't open through sumatra or adobe.
CyberDuck for whatever reason stopped the machine from seeing a locally based NAS, didn't investigate as customer was anti-CyberDuck suggesting it was clunky and somehow interfered with the locally based NAS.
OwnCloud seems rather complicated or over the top, think it's difficult enough/time consuming to avoid unless others suggest it's worth it.
I've looked at many other suppliers and FileCloud seems to offer what i'm after except they give a tonne of other stuff i don't need or want to supply to other customers at this present time to cover their costs.
Would be interested to hear what others may suggest who have been in similar situations. My customer has budgeted rather "healthily" so paying for software isn't going to be an issue but i'd rather not go through the trial-and-error routine when i have access to such a high-level-support forum as TechNibble (can you feel the brown-nosing going on there!)
All scorns, warns and help appreciated..
Lee
