Building a Student Storage server
<p>I work for a school district. I've been put in charge of building a storage server for students.  A place for them to work off of from school and home.  </p>

<p>My challenge is getting this to work from home. At school they login, authenticate, and they get a mapped drive to their folder on the server (<code>S:\fileserver\studentname</code>).</p>

<p>My question is how can I make this available to students at home?  </p>

<p>The server is running Windows Server 2008 R2.  I've got PHP, Apache, and MySQL working together.  My idea is to write a script that will "crawl" through the directory containing all of the student folders, then create an instance of every file and folder in a MySQL DB. Create a login page that will use LDAP for authentication, and once they login to the server from home, they get a page with folders a files tied to their username.</p>

<p>Has anyone out there ever put something like this together??</p>
