A LAN-based P2P? [SOLVED]

shepmaster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 105

Hey all:

My friends and I just set up a small hamachi network (encrypted tunneling/VPN). Seems to be working fine, and we can all see each other. However, I'm looking for an easy way to share files between all of us (the original point of this). Currently, we are using SMB to share things, but it has some notable limitations.

The basic needs/wants I have is that it needs to be cross-platform Mac/Linux/Windows, offer easy IP-based networking (to restrict to just our network), and a way to browse among the computers (manual IP typing is OK...).

We have thought of NFS, AFS, HTTP, FTP, but none of them really get all of it, with FTP being the closest in my mind.

Any bright ideas?

kojiro · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:10 am Post subject: Re: A LAN-based P2P?

ssh/scp/rsync would be what I would use. I *do* use, is more like.

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

So what features do you need? Have you considered webdav?
Apache is available for about any OS and you can use IP and/or password restriction. There are possibilities for transparent networking over webdav at least for Windows and Linux. There might be something for MacOS X -- but I'm not familiar with this OS.

EDIT: Maybe IIS supports webdav, too?

Alex!!!
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nielchiano · Veteran Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 1287 Location: 50N 3E

I'm not familiar with it, but can't you just run a bittorrent tracker?

shepmaster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 105

shepmaster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 105

ssh/scp/rsync: All are a bit... lower-level than some of us would prefer. While I love mucking about with command lines, not everyone in our group does. The nice easy GUI is the way to go.

WebDAV, when I set it up before, was a pain in the ass, and seemed spotty at best. Apache is definetly true, but the browsing isn't there as much as I'd like.

What we actually ended up using was Direct Connect. I know, it is a blast from the past, but it provided exactly what I want. There are clients for all 3 OSes, it supports brosing and searching, queues, resumable downloads, a chat. I just set up a DC hub on my gentoo box using opendchub, and everyone connects to that. I then connect via the command line with microdc. Works really well!

Thanks guys!

tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1227

does microdc support TTH ?
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anidabi · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject: