nearly-local filesharing

[ted leslie]

i think novell iFolder is designed to do exactly this,
but i guess the issue would be, you have to trust it will stay in the "area" on your disk you designate, and
not let neighbours also see your personal files.
its in mono, and runs on mac/win/linux, its open source.

-tl

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:46:47 -0400
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.  
> 
> Currently I have two ideas for this:
> 
> 1- a password-protected ftp site running off of my server -- if someone
> wants to share a file, they put it on the server in advance and then
> others can access it using ftp.  
> 
> 2 - some kind of small bittorrent tracker running on the above-mentioned
> server.  For now at least i'd like it to be a private service, limited
> to our neighbourhood.  
> 
> Seems to me neither solution is perfect.  I really don't want to get
> into trouble in regards to my terms of service with teksavvy, or to
> bring down The Man on our little filesharing group.  I'd also like to
> have the load be distributed rather than centralized, so I'm not so
> pleased with the ftp option.  But I just wondered whether anyone else
> had tried something similar, and what your experience was.  And
> especially if you have some better suggestions than these!  thanks,
> 
> matt
> 
> 
> 
> 
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