nearly-local filesharing

[Michael Lauzon]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:46, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> hey everyone,
>
> a bunch of neighbours on my street all keep their media files in digital
> format on their pc's.  often we want to share those files with each
> other, or check something out while we're at each other's houses.
> currently, we burn dvd's or cd's to do so, but it'd be really cool if we
> could access each other's files from the various computers.
>
> I'm the only linux uses, the others are mostly on PC and I think there's
> one Mac.
>

I would have suggested GigaTribe (http://www.gigatribe.com/en/home),
but it's Windows only...so Mac & Linux users would be left out. I also
found the following:

http://odeo.com/episodes/23470780-Share-Files-Between-Computers-Mac-Linux-and-Windows

And:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1163653.html

And, if you have patience...take a look through the google results:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ei=U1jiSen0DMPonQfqp-GwCQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=file+sharing+between+Windows,+Linux,+and+Macs+-bittorrent&spell=1


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Sincerely,

Michael Lauzon
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