--- Phil Driscoll
...but sadly, that means that the compromised Windows clients (in practice, nearly all of them) will then be passing your FreeBSD usernames and passwords on to the miscreants who installed the keystroke sniffers.
At a push (perhaps more a leap of faith), you *could* use {web,user}min as a means of allowing this -- but they're both *complete* shit, and break any manner of things I won't go into here. So, a more pratical solution -- ssh, more specifically sftp. I'm sure there are a number of windows clients that support it (I thought 'gftp' had been ported to windows, but...). As for file locking -- you can emulate this, but it depends whether it is predominately a shared filestore or not, and more importantly if multiple updates might happen... but perhaps unlikely for a school network system. Heck, I don't even get that privilege here at Uni. :| -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com