I have had quite reasonable success in a business context with this iPad app:

and an sftp server, Linux of course.

A chrooted SFTP server is a trivial setup in Linux.

We provde that via our DC "almost " cloud infra and it just works.

It's a business oriented "private" dropbox style utility.

Setting that up on a cheap AWS instance would be very cost effective I would think.

But you could just keep it in house if being able to get to it from anywhere was not a need.

We provide this service for a number of clients...very easy to maintain but will admit that the app did have it's "moments" earlier in the year. All looks AOK now though.

On later iPad versions its very stable and we generally do not spend more than seconds a day in maintenance for around 200-220 users from various clients.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:

Hi,

my daughter has a new iPad now, it is a requirement at the college she
goes.

Great, that fossil does not even know what to to with a USB stick? Any
workarounds?

I guess I could put the data on the Linux side under a webserver's root.
Other ways? Does Apple still supports Apple File Server (would be netatalk
on the Linux side?)

I really hate computers that are just made with $$ in the eyes, without
any intention to provide a good product to the customers.

Compared to the iPad, the Android based ZaTab is much friendlier to its
environment.

A fortnight ago I had four kids, aged 9 to 12, at home. The played using
three tablets (2 ZaTabs, 1 iPad) and they did not care at all which brand
it was - it looked so similar they did not notice.

Regards
Peter
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