Network between friends

-TangleFoot-

Would WASTE or AllPeers be of any use in this sort of situation?

mynamesnotdave

Cheers Tanglefoot,
These look very intersting, basically, the easier the setup the better.
Not sure all my friends will be able to handle changing port forwarding etc on their routers..

cargo

I had a shared folder set up for a couple of my freinds a while back via ftp.
It worked a treat,once you set up user names and passwords your ok.

"mind you i havent set it up again since getting a router"

I must give it a try.

tigermatt

Although you didn't really want to use "shared" space as such, and a VPN is more secure, you could always get something like Sharepoint. I know it's a bit expensive but it means you don't have the NAT (port forwarding) problem and your PC doesn't have to stay on all the time. There's lots more features than just file sharing - calendars, appointments, personal settings etc.

It's very secure so you would only get the users you want to access it, and only with the correct password of course.

Edit: Maximum of 50 users on the 1and1 service though. You'd probably need to pay for more.

Edit 2: :j 1800th post.

wolfman

amosworks wrote:

I meant someone at either ISP, or the several connections in-between Depends what you're sharing eh mynamesnotdave

At the ISP! I'm not even gonna bother mentioning the legality issues, or that an ISP couldn't survive if such things were known.

Basic point is anyone at the ISP isn't likely to do anything, especially if it's just random users, and anyone within a few hops would probably be exactly the same. And if it were the case, then people should be worried about what they browse (via http) and emails they send (via pop) as they can be sniffed just like ftp.

In perspective, for an average home user, transferring common files (nothing overly confidential), ftp is perfect, especially given what people browse and send via pop.