User space filesharing

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:51 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> In between bugfixes I managed to hack up a pretty cool feature. A
> program that allows you to easily share files on a network without
> having to configure anything. Its not production quality yet, and it
> lacks some UI, but it seems to work.
> 
> You can get rpms to try it at:
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/RPMS/gnome-user-share-0.2-1.i386.rpm
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/RPMS/gnome-user-share-0.2-1.src.rpm
> 
> Just install them and start gnome-user-share, then toggle
> the /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/enabled key using gconf-editor or
> gconftool-2. You should get a $HOME/Public directory which is exported
> via webdav, and it should immediately be visible in the "Network"
> location in Nautilus 2.7/2.8 on all machines on the local network.
> 
> Please test it out.

For interesed parties, here is a screenshot of it running as the "gnome"
user on my test machine, showing the setting, the Public dir and a share
from the "alex" user on my other machine:

http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/user_sharing.png

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