How to implement a file server for employees on the road?

Question

FTP

Good day.

In general, the problem is this. In our company, employees often travel abroad. And it happens that they need to quickly transfer large files. Now there is complete chaos going on here, people are throwing links from Yandex, mail disks to different mailboxes, then you have to run around and look for who gave what to whom.
Are there any solutions to organize this chaos into a specific and orderly process, receiving and transferring files.

I see only a solution, creating an ftp server, and distributing personal accounts to everyone. But the problem is that I have never done this (there was no need).
If there are exhaustive manuals, please share those in charge in this matter.

The following resources are available:
1. stable 50 MB/C internet
2. i7/3.6/16GB/5TB win7pro idle machine
3. several free domains, and poor hosting...

PS I am a programmer myself, but due to certain circumstances, I have to work as a sysadmin.

Answer 1

As you yourself answered, there is nothing simpler and clearer than just an FTP server with users.

Answer 2

Have you looked at bittorent sync?

Answer 3

Well, here you can pile up such bicycles that mom don’t cry ...
From O.K. enterprise solutions:
+ dropbox - simple, cross-platform, easy to integrate into almost any business process: you can copy-paste files, you can share folders with partners (registration is not required for monitoring), you can share single files.
+ Google Drive - about the same as dropbox, but with better integration into google services and a slightly better understanding of business processes - hence more flexible.
+ Thousands of different synchronizers of varying degrees of integration into the business and their own products.
The main thing to be hammered in here is that the use of the service is paid, so you still need to use it, and not your own disks and / or uploaders.
But you can, of course, pile up your bike. They can pile up a lot of different ones, from simple, almost with a "make it beautiful" button BitTorrent Sync and simpler rsync , to complex hierarchical systems with ftp , git , samba+vpn , and even SFTP (via SSH+SCP). Everything that fantasy comes to.

Answer 4

ownCloud https://owncloud.org/

Answer 5

Ummm ... the problem is not the lack of a tool, but a system. You can organize ftp (there are a lot of manuals on the network, you can take a freelancer for 500-1000 rubles), you can vpn and just share folders, you can eventually just create a separate account on the same Yandex disk with a common login-password

Answer 6

Look towards Seafile . And versioning, and links, and file storage:
www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=40335
Perhaps, as already suggested above ownCloud .
Whatever you like, install it. There will be a very advanced and tidy storage facility with all modern whistles.

Answer 7

When implementing this project, keep in mind that in some places with free wi-fi abroad, access via vpn is blocked. My past clients complained that, for example, when sailing on a steamboat abroad, they surfed the Internet normally, but to the office, to Russia via VPN, nothing.

Answer 8

You need a real one and or forward a port on the PC where the server will be installed filezilla server create accents and distribute to employees

Answer 9

I recommend to refuse FTP. It's not safe at all. As a last resort, SFTP.
And if you want it to be convenient and not create a file dump, then look towards managed file sharing products. I like opentrust MFT.