Networking - How to send bigger files to friends? Oddball - Jan 14, 2008 - 12:44 PM Post subject: How to send bigger files to friends?
I sometimes (not very often) need to send files to some friends. The files are to big for their mailboxes. Files between 2 to 10 mb, so they are not that big.
So I thought I could easy set up a ftp server to use, now I have tried for some hours without succeeding. I have search the net and there are a lot of how to:s, but either they are not complete, very old or I don't understand them.
Any ideas?
I need the following features.
My friends shall be able to reach the files with a web browser (some are not able to use or install a ftp klient)
Shall be easy to start and stop, the feature shall only be open for the short time it takes for my friends to get the files.
phen - Jan 14, 2008 - 12:49 PM Post subject:
you could register at dyndns for free, setup an apache and your friends can browse the files you want to share. You can also give them a password and such.
EDIT:
Xadras' tool KLAMP seems to be a very neat assistant for that, but I only receive 404s there (?)
saxxonian - Jan 14, 2008 - 12:50 PM Post subject: RE: How to send bigger files to friends?
we here (Romania) often use skype to transfer bigger files, it works FAST for all in the same provider-network. 15MB in 59 seconds. quite convenient. disadvantage: one trnasfer at the time, both partners need to be involved.
vetinari - Jan 14, 2008 - 02:17 PM Post subject: RE: How to send bigger files to friends?
ssh and scp/sftp.
benefit:
- secure (encrypted) connection
- ssh daemon is easy to set up
drawback:
- it could be necessary to use a chroot environment or a vm to protect your system from your friend
- transfer resume is not possible (as far as I know)
hubi - Jan 14, 2008 - 03:02 PM Post subject: RE: How to send bigger files to friends?
Oddball, why not using a filehoster like http://www.mediafire.com/
hubi
Oddball - Jan 14, 2008 - 03:14 PM Post subject: Re: RE: How to send bigger files to friends?
That can be a solution, I shall try that, Thanks Hubi
severin - Jan 14, 2008 - 04:02 PM Post subject: RE: Re: RE: How to send bigger files to friends?
gmx allows its users to share folders in their so-called Media Center. It generates temporary links, valid for 7 or 14 days (at your decision). A standard gmx account acommodates 1GB in total, I don't know of any limit to the individual files' size, though
xadras - Jan 14, 2008 - 10:34 PM Post subject: RE: Re: RE: How to send bigger files to friends?
phen wrote:
Xadras' tool KLAMP seems to be a very neat assistant for that, but I only receive 404s there (?)
