Archive for the 'WebFiles' Category
May 22nd, 2009 by Andrew Laurence
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Blackberry
The campus wireless network has enabled mobile computing for laptop and tablet computers for years. Faculty and staff may be less aware that NACS also offers services to users of handheld mobile devices such as iPhones and Blackberries.
If you use Oracle Calendar to manage your appointments, NACS offers support for wireless synchronization so you can carry your calendar with you. Oracle Calendar offers two methods for synchronizing a personal digital assistant, Desktop Calendar Sync (for PDAs) or Mobile Data Sync (for smartphones and cell phones.) These methods are mutually exclusive, and should not be intermingled.
For users of NACS’s Exchange server, you can get access to your email via Blackberry by using Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) for Exchange. BES is a “push” technology meaning the Exchange server will update your Blackberry whenever new data (email, events) is delivered to your account.
If you need help with these resources, or have other ideas how NACS can support mobile devices and technologies, please call x4-2222 or email nacs@uci.edu.
May 22nd, 2009 by John Mangrich
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WebFiles
Webfiles is a campus filesharing service available to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Using a simple Web interface, users can upload files to be shared and specify a wide variety of access restrictions, specifying individuals or groups, number of allowed accesses, or a time window of accessibility. NACS offers quarterly classes in the use of Webfiles.
NACS has recently doubled the disk space available to users from 1 gigabyte (Gb) to 2Gb. More information on the use of Webfiles can be found online.
January 23rd, 2009 by John Mangrich
Webfiles is a NACS service which offers a collaborative filesharing environment. Available to UCI faculty, staff and graduate students, Webfiles provides 1 gigabyte of space in which to place any type of electronic data — documents, spreadsheets, data files, binary media files, etc. These files can easily be shared, with read-only or read-write privileges, with other campus Webfiles users. The Webfiles system also offers “tickets,” which can facilitate sharing or collaborative editing with your colleagues outside of UCI.
file sharing
Among other features of this service, you can specify tickets which limit access time or number of uses, you can log all accesses to particular files, and Webfiles can maintain multiple versions of files being modified.
Webfiles is a good alternative to the use of email attachments, especially for those projects which involve large files, or require repeated revisions among several collaborators.
Webfiles training is offered quarterly. You can find out when the next session is scheduled at the NACS Training website .
November 7th, 2003 by Dana Roode
Network & Academic Computing Services is proud to announce our new Webfiles service. Webfiles enables UCI faculty and staff to share electronic information (files) among themselves and with their non-UCI colleagues using a familiar Web interface. You can maintain your file storage via Web browser or by creating a folder (directory) on your desktop Windows, Macintosh, or Unix system using the “WebDAV” protocol. You can also create a “ticket” that can be e-mailed to allow conditional access to files by others.
To begin using Webfiles, visit http://webfiles.uci.edu and select the “Create new account” link. An e-mail message will be sent to your UCI address containing a Webfiles ticket to create your account. Click on the link in the e-mail message (or cut and paste it into your browser) to create your account, and you can then access 1 Gigabyte of shareable file space using your UCInetID and password.
Webfiles enables you to set access permissions, including making files public, available only to UCI affiliates, available only to a group you define, or available to no one except when you e-mail someone a ticket.
One good use for Webfiles is in place of large e-mail attachments. You will find detailed instructions on the various Webfiles features on the Webfiles home page or at http://www.nacs.uci.edu/webfiles/docs/documentation.html
Please be mindful of UCI policies and Copyright Law when choosing what materials to share on this service. Also, please do not use the WebDAV option except on a system you have exclusive control over.
Please direct your comments and questions to the NACS Response Center (824-2222, nacs@uci.edu).
February 22nd, 2001 by Dana Roode
Update: i-drive service was discontinued in December 2001. NACS now offers WebFiles as a web disk space service.
i-drive is a commercial outfit that offers free web-accessible storage space to UCI students, faculty and staff. Using your UCInetID and password, you can store and retrieve up to 50 megabytes of files all through a Web browser.
Network & Academic Computing Services (NACS) is sponsoring a campus assessment of the capabilities of this service, its ease of use, and its value to the campus community through the 2000/1 academic year.
The i-drive user interface provides download and upload capabilities, file sharing, and web publishing. These are some of the primary features we are interested in testing and comparing with other companies that are emerging.
Other California universities running similar projects include UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Stanford.
UCI’s i-drive site [was] located at http://idrive.uci.edu. Please share your experience and assessment with us at nacs@uci.edu.