[Moodle] Moodle award

[Henry Johnson]

Hmm. A simple solution would be to have the moodle server mount the windows file share via samba. Putting  samba file shares on an Apache server may have some security implications I am unaware of, but Apache can be tweaked in a number of ways to compensate (it would be site specific).  That way the moodle server is doing the web publishing, not your workstation ( a big no-no in your average security practices, but then you do have a good firewall, IDS, logging and all that other stuff set up, right?)  In effect, you are punching a hole thru your school's firewall.  You could even run a script on the moodle server that would "sync" your MyFolder with a directory that the moodle server can publish, thereby bypassing many security issues.  


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Henry Johnson
Moodle Administrator
Yavneh College
http://moodle.yavneh.vic.edu.au
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>>> OH.A at wcc.vic.edu.au 08/17/07 12:16 PM >>>
Ahem, I don't want to sidetrack the discusion about the Ultranet, but
does anyone know if there is a way around this scenario:

- The moodle server is inhouse
- I have a Windows file server containing a folder called "MyFolder"
that I did a webshare on. Ths folder has pictures, etc that
teachers want students to access/view
- in moodle, I used "Link to a file or website" to link to "MyFolder"
- all works well....inhouse.
- when logged in to moodle from home, the MyFolder link fails.

I could upload whats in MyFolder into moodle however, I can't be sure if
I can rely on the teachers to maintain the files that have finished
with, ie they may not clear out the old stuff from moodle and it grows
insize unnecessarily. 

I would appreciate any solution or alternative methods.

Thanks
aLAn


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