ShowHN: Using SSH for file sharing among users (Python Project on github)

http://divinequantum.blogspot.in/2011/12/spark-automated-file-sharing-over-ssh.html

by sravfeyn • 14 years ago

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sravfeyn4• 14 years ago

I want to make it general-purpose, depending on your suggestions.

jnorthrop• 14 years ago

This could be built out as a service that is competitive to SendFile, DropBox and other file sharing services. If I understand it correctly the server between the sender and receiver never stores the file itself which is unique.

sravfeyn4• 14 years ago

Yeah the server here actually stores the file :), albeit temporarily.

icebraining3• 14 years ago

There's Share[1] and AeroFS, as far as I know, they're both P2P.

EDIT: As a solution that doesn't need apps and uses the server only as a temporary middleman instead of actually storing the file, there's JetBytes[2].

[1] http://www.getshareapp.com/

[2] http://jetbytes.com/

pault2• 14 years ago

Making references to movie piracy in your description hurts your credibility. You are playing into the content industry's argument that file sharing == piracy. Don't do that.

sravfeyn4• 14 years ago

Ah, I should change it!

DrCatbox• 14 years ago

What makes you think that he has not bought and payed for the movie Inception - to which he then bacme a rightful owner of a dvd/blueray? Having ownership of it, he is free to copy it for his own purposes, such as to make backups or to borrow it to his friend, like any other private property he has?

VMG• 14 years ago

I don't quite get it - how do other users access your files without having also shell access?

If they have shell access, why not simply use scp or rsync?

sravfeyn4• 14 years ago

None can actually access other's files directly, since they are on their local machines, not on server. One (User A) can only put a small request token (a request file with the File_Name they want and their home folder address) in the source(User B) folder. Since User B is listening to requests. It will upload the file to User A's folder.

dotpot• 14 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554814

mappu• 14 years ago

How was NMDC traffic blocked, do you know? By IP, or by packet inspection?

You can run the hub on any port you like to circumvent the first (let's see them try and block port 80!), and use an ADCS server to circumvent the second - still compatible with DC++ and recent mods (ApexDC, StrongDC et al)

You might also want to look into DTella to decentralise your network.

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