We're currently looking at using our existing NetApp boxes for deploying web based storage services for the campus.

One approach we've considered is developing our own software which would interface to the ONTAP cifs admin commands. The idea would be to develop something that lets user create their own shares and groups, with the ability to add/remove users. This could be possibly inflexible tho, and would probably lead to a proliferation of groups.

Another approach could be to use NFS and export the storage to a web server, and put our home-grown software on the webserver.

Has anyone done anything like this? Or does anyone know of a possible vendor solutions that could use our existing infrastructure?