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By: nanoman

nanoman — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:27:07 +0000

Hi,

I like WebDrive and it works well. What I would really like is for a program like WebDrive with the option of on the fly encryption and decryption. That is, the files leaving my computer are store on the remote file server as an encrypted file (e.g. PGP or similar).

It seems like there should be a “all in one” program that would do this. Maybe I just am thinking incompletely. Presently, I accomplish this using two programs on my Win XP computer: 1 for on the fly encryption and to map the SFTP / FTP connection as a virtual drive.

If someone know of a Win XP program that does both I would be interested in knowing what it is.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:32:37 +0000

I tried RedDrive and it seems to work well. However, it seems that I can drag and drop only individual files, not folders. Does anyone know if that’s the way it it supposed to work?

By: Oisín

Oisín — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:55:32 +0000

Yeah, RedDrive seems to work fine for me too, although it’s a tiny bit slow sometimes.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:19:05 +0000

A free tool which is working well for me so far (a replacement for NetDrive, which I now see is not actually legally licensed) is RedDrive from http://www.jscape.com. FtpDrive from http://www.killprog.com looks powerful too, though I couldn’t get a successful connection.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:44:22 +0000

You can speed up WebDrive by specifying an option in the Properties of the drive. Go to the Connection->SFTP Settings, and put a check mark in the line which says “Enable file block I/O (random access)”

Be warned that when this is checked, the overall transfer speed drops about 75%, in other words, a 20 second transfer will now take about 80-90 seconds.

By: Roman

Roman — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:57:54 +0000

You can read it in he EULA
http://homes.jcu.edu.au/~ccscb/netdrivelicense.txt
“You are authorized to install and use the Software
internally within Your organization or entity in
connection with Your lawful use of Novell NetWare(r) 6
software licenses, which must be acquired separately
from the Novell NetDrive 4.0 Software.”

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:28:40 +0000

Jonathan, such a simple program is not free? Where did you get this information?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:46:27 +0000

Netdrive is an earlier version of Webdrive, which was licensed to Novell. It is NOT free, in fact if you use it you are violating the license if you don’t have a novell network.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:54:33 +0000

I tried both sftpdrive and webdrive. I had problems with sftpdrive, which I suspect are related to the low quality of broadband in our offices. webdrive works perfectly.