[nycbug-talk] ipad remote storage question

[Pete Wright]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a roll out at work for 200+ ipads in the fall, 400 in 2 years,
> and we need to provide remote file storage/access.  I have spoken to
> apple about it and they are recommending webdav.  I was wondering if
> anyone else had any different ideas or product recommendations?
> Currently we are testing with apache/webdav and each user gets his own
>  <location></location> stanza in apache config, its fine for 5-10 but
> will become a bit unwieldy when it grows.
> 

just thinking off the top of my head, but perhaps you could use
webdav+ldap to help scale this out?  haven't looked at docs too closely,
but i'm thinking something along the lines of pulling user auth along
with some webdav attributes from ldap...


-pete

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