Network presentation of file system
 

Greetings,

Recently we´ve come around an issue that´s been a pain to solve.
One of our clients needs to exchange file with us and right off the bat we used the good-old FTP.
The issue is: our client doesn´t know how to use FTP (yep, that´s right). And we can´t give them proper support since:

- They´re at the other side of the world
- The only technical support we have there doesn´t talk our language (and we don´t take theirs, so...)

To try and simplify the process, I thought of using some kind of tool that would show, inside a browser, the contents of a particular folder or file system inside a Linux box (or Windows, it doesn´t really matter).

The thing is: I can´t even name this kind of function, since I don´t know how it´s called.
Anyone knows how it´s called, and if there´s any option around that would do something like it?

Thanks in advance, very much.

Use winSCp secure file transfer tool
 

Yo may try WinSCP (url www.winscp.net), it works on windows

google/wikipedia for more info on WinSCP.

Only thing is end user will need to have login/password for acces to the linux box

Are they pushing files to you, or pulling files from you?

If the former, you might consider a simple php file upload app. That's about as easy as it gets from the client side. (On the server side you're going to have to install / configure / secure a web server and php, though.)

woof
I just discovered it.
It's brilliant.

If they want to send a file to you, they need to be running linux (or Mac, I think), if you want to send it to them, then it's really easy, whatever they are running.

Otherwise, can't they email you the file?
Or do desktop sharing with krfb (linux)

A good FTP GUI (free) is FileZilla http://filezilla-project.org/. Runs on MS/Linux/OSX.
Screenshots http://filezilla-project.org/client_screenshots.php