Why is it so hard to manage a website? Why are the steps so complicated? Why can't you use the tool of your choice to publish? Why do you have to make graphics or videos in one tool and then publish them with another? The reason is security. To keep your web site secure, most providers only permit access to your web site with secure tools. So unless your video suite supports the same secure publishing scheme your hosting provider does, you need to go from tool to tool to tool. Would you prefer your choice of tools? How about easy access from anywhere, by anyone you allow. How about being able to use whatever tools you want, whether you need to put up web pages or podcasts, without having to launch a separate posting or transfer tool. ParaDrive makes managing hosted files as easy as managing local ones, with complete security. If you want to modify a web page, just open it, in any tool. Do you want to publish a video? Just save it to your hosted directory from any tool. Do you want to back up the web site? Use any back up tool, even Winzip, as easily as if the files were on your desktop. How? ParaDrive allows you to share files from one system to another over an encrypted (SSL) connection. ParaDrive is a replacement for NetBIOS, NFS, WebDav, and Samba file sharing without the security problems and other issues like complex configuration. This type of file sharing is one-way and perfect for SOHO (Small Office, Home Office), Multi-Media or ISP type use. Since ParaDrive will be available on multiple operating systems you'll be able to seamlessly connect to Linux, FreeBSD, OSX, Solaris or XP systems.

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Applications

Managing your website:
Do you have a website? Get tired of editing, saving, pull up another application and saving your documents to the website? How about when you want that latest mp3 or jpg file to show up so someone can download? Wouldn't it be nice to just drag and drop it into what looks like a local drive? So even if your website is hosted on a Linux or a Solaris machine located at your ISP you can still make your /www directory appear as a local drive on your system.

Convenient remote access:
Ever have to drive back home to get that presentation that you had finished but left on your system in your home office? Ever been at home and realized that you forgot that proposal that's due in just a few short days. Wouldn't it be nice to just have your data in one place? How about that thumb drive that you have to use to update both your home and your office? With ParaDrive you will no longer have to drive back in, wait for tomorrow or carry a small file transfer device only to realize you forgot to put the files on the device.

Multi-media:
You can buy a multi media server that will restrict you to very specific operating systems, or you can install the OS of your choice and allow all of your systems to use it. Use an inexpensive server running Linux with a mixture of Macintosh and Windows systems.

Resources:
As an MIS manager with a growing population of staff that now work solely from home you need to update specific software to systems on diverse networks, add to this that most drive resource sharing doesn't work off a local LAN and add in requirements for encryption and security and you have a huge headache. ParaDrive deployed throughout your corporation will allow you to deploy software and have a central repository for your information. This allows you to manage and secure your network while using your available tools for backups.

Multiple Platforms

WebMaster Incorporated maintains its commitment to provide its tools on multiple platforms and supports XP/2003, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. This commitment allows our customers the most flexibility in deployment of its servers and tools. 64bit versions of our software will be available in 1st quarter '07.

Client / Server

ParaDrive comes in two pieces, the first is a server that runs on the host system and the second is the client. WebMaster provides the ParaDrive server at no charge allowing ISPs and users to run copies on multiple machines. For the ISP this provides a cost-free entry that allows them to offer an easier way for their customers to manage their website. For users it means that they have the freedom to install this on as many machines as they want and they can use the ParaDrive client with any of them. ParaDrive will run as a service when used

Professional Edition:
Designed for personal and corporate use this server allows you to install it on a local server, add users, groups and paths that you wish to share to specific users. This is perfect for the home and corporate user that would like to manage their access control directly.

ISP Edition:
This version uses the /etc/passwd file on Unix and the NT domain controller to authenticate users. After authentication the ParaDrive client will automatically mount the user's home directory on their local system. This will allow ISPs to offer a seamless, intuitive and easy-to-use interface to their hosting service.

Multiple Protocol Support

What happens when a ParaDrive server isn't available on the machine where you want to get your data? ParaDrive will also act as an FTP client allowing you to mount or make available on your system a remote ftp server just like it was a local drive on your system. Below is a list of alternate protocols that the ParaDrive client supports.

Protocol Support

• ParaDrive Server
• FTP
• SFTP
• SecureFTP
• SCP
• HTTP
• And coming soon Front Page Extensions

Access Security Requirements

Both the server and the client portions of ParaDrive can be configured with additional security. This allows you to have the mounted drive or directory unmount (detach) or prompt for a password when:

• A specific time has been reached.
• The screen saver activates.
• No activity has been detected.
• A Hot-Key is pressed.
• The drive is mounted.

Security Tokens

Security tokens offer more security options. ParaDrive will soon support physical security tokens. A physical security token is a device that contains a key that cannot be copied out of the device. ParaDrive will support a variety of USB security tokens.

Some ways that you can use a physical security token include:

1) Use one as an emergency access mechanism. Store it in a secure place and if you ever forget your password, the token can let you back in.

2) Protect the token with a short PIN number. Even if someone looks over your shoulder and captures your PIN number, it's useless to them without the token.

3) Store all your ParaDrive authorizations in one token and protect them all with a single password or PIN number.

4) Load ParaDrive onto the token along with authorizations. With one simple USB device, you can install ParaDrive and access all your shares securely. Mail or give it to a friend, coworker, or family member and it will install ParaDrive and walk them through accessing their shares instantly. If stolen, it's useless without the PIN number and you can revoke its authorization easily if it's ever needed.

Utilize Local Operating System Tools

• Manage remote files easily and natively using all the tools available in your Operating System.
• Use local backup utilities to backup your data.
• Run popular antivirus software on both your local and remote drives.
• Create local scripts to manipulate files.

Rendezvous

Rendezvous is a service that WebMaster Incorporated provides that allows a ParaDrive client and server to access each other when one or both systems are behind a NAT (Network Address Translation allows a router, to act as an agent between the Internet and a local network.) router or firewall. The problem with NAT is that it relies on an outbound connection being instigated by the host computer and a system across the Internet can't just access a system that's behind a NAT router. For this reason we run a Rendezvous server. Two systems both connect to our server at the office. When only one device is using NAT we can easily tell it to connect to the other system. When both devices are using NAT we can either proxy the connection (additional services charges may apply) or use a fancy TCP/IP hand off technique.

Using Rendezvous is simple. You just register at WebMaster for the service, enter your user name and password on the server and client. The server will automatically detect when you need assistance to make a connection. The ParaDrive server will show Rendezvous all the shares that it currently has and when you connect with a client all those shares will be available.

Installation

Ease of installation: Simply provide the host, user, pass and let ParaDrive do the rest. It will attempt to log into the server in a variety of ways, find out what OS is in use, provide you with a choice as to how to make a connection to the server and then install the appropriate server software for your OS.

Installation is easy:

1.Simply install the server, select a user name, password and a directory to share.

Note: More advanced configurations allow you to create multiple users, group them and select multiple paths for the users/groups to join.

2.Install the client software, either give the address of the ParaDrive server or have it scan your local network for all servers that are currently running.

3.Log in to the remote server with your user name and password.

4.Select the directory you want attached to your local system.