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Distributed peer to peer file sharing (file system?) with authentication

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diehlr

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Does anyone know of a good distributed peer to peer file sharing system mainly for Win32 users that supports authentication (by either password or IP, doesn't necessarily need anything insanely sophisticated or government-level secure in this regard, just something functional).

Ideally, I'm looking for a distributed system that pools the resources / bandwidth of all available clients and has some kind of integrated browsing / searching capability.

I've looked into NFS, AFS, and gnunet and while they are impressive and almost ahead of their time in terms of features, they're a little bit much. I don't need something that integrates seamlessly with the operating system, for example. A virtual rudamentary organization of files / folders would be nice.

It would also need to be a program that an intermediate computer user (wouldn't take a UNIX expert) would be able to configure and install themselves given some aptitude and a few instructions.

Does anyone have some recommendations that fits these requirements or know of something I should check out? I've looked all over the place and everything I've found always come up short in one way or another.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and if you could forward your response to diehlr@bellsouth.net I would appreciate it.
 
I went ahead and subscribed to the thread, so responses can just be sent here and I'll catch them in my inbox.
 
I have no idea, but here's a bump!
*edit* have you, or have you considered, posting this in the software applications forum?
 
This is probably not what you want.. but have you considered and ftp client on each of the machines? don't know how many your doing or for what, but thats what I do from my home to remote locations :S I have also used another program called "remote explorer" that allowed me to just type in the username and password for the machine I wanted to connect to and it automatically found the ip through the remote explorer's database and connected me. You would just need to put a unique username on each computer you wanted to connect to.



 
Is this for a LAN or WAN setting? If you're all in the same physical area, a local DirectConnect(lite) node would have distributed bandwidth, searching, and be no0b-friendly.

A WAN setting ... I dunno, VPN server into the LAN and DC from there? 😛

- M4H
 
Be VERY carful with something like that. My brother's at RPI and some kid wrote a program to keep track of the files in shared folders within the college so that one could search through them. But, catch this, the kids being sued for over a million (obviously he doesn't have close for christs sakes, the kids in college) because the file containing the locations of all the files was centralized (similar to what happened to Napster IIRC) and people were accessing copyrighted material.
 
you can use IPSec, it comes with windows 2k and xp, it cannot key with multicast addresses but it can with single peers and subnets etc. it can use preshared key, certs, or kerberos for auth
 
the waste project, from nullsoft (but pulled by aol) is pretty much exactly what you're looking for.

it was released under the gpl, and there is controversy over whether it would be actually legal to use it.

but, a heck of a lot of people are using it (and mirroring the software) including dave winer of scripting.com

there was a slashdot thread on it awhile ago. search for nullsoft on slashdot to find it.
 
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