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Use LimeWire to transfer data files to a selected user
Authored by: cantoniou on Apr 08, '05 12:35:39PM

To use this, you need to be constantly on-line and be running a p2p application. Why not setup an ftp server on your machine? (no cost for an ftp site as you mention).

MacOSX has a built-in ftp server, and you can find many others that are free and open source (try versiontracker.com),e.g. pure-ftpd, pro-ftpd.

Granted, you will need to set them up once, but:
a. this is not a big deal
b. you just do it once, and since it is work-related it will definitely be worth it
c. you can create accounts for the users (for security) or set it up as an anonymous server and only give your machine name to your clients.

Now, if you have a dynamic ip, you would also need to use a service like no-ip.com or dyndns.org to get a static domain name. (Setting this up is trivial).



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Use LimeWire to transfer data files to a selected user
Authored by: kanou on Apr 10, '05 08:13:06PM

well why dont you use skype?
skype is for voip but its also a nice chat program and for sending files its good too. the best thing is: its crypted!
im using it for calling my girl but i recognized it very well for sending files.
try it.
the best way i think is using ssh in the terminal but thats not that easy.
kanou



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Use LimeWire to transfer data files to a selected user
Authored by: aglzen on May 06, '05 06:48:01PM
Actually, there's a HUGE advantage to using this or the bittorrent method over the other solutions (FTP, Apache, Middleware sites) proposed:

Integrity Checking

Bittorrent and Limewire both check the files to make sure they're not corrupt, and will re-download 'damaged' portions until the checksums match.

This simply does not happen when downloading via HTTP or FTP. And if you're moving something of decent size, like say a 5GB system disk image for backup, this makes a big difference.

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