SUSPECT: Re: OT: Free Hosting for Big files

[Maxime Alarie]

You can create a user on your system, and ask your friends to download the file with winscp?  They only need winscp, your ipadress and the account info..

You would have to open the port 22 on your  router  though.


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of sdavmor
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 2:01 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: SUSPECT: Re: OT: Free Hosting for Big files

On 04/21/2010 01:20 AM, Franz Waldmüller wrote:
> Hi Jose
> Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez schrieb:
>> Hi There!.
>>
>> I need share a file bigger than 250 Mb. I was several days searching
>> the Internet for a free style hosting site, where my fellows can access
>> to the file and download it. But i can't find a "serious" free hosting.
>>
>> Do you know any web or ftp site where i can up this file?.
> a transfer with bittorrent would be very easy:
> Start Transmission:
> Applications ->  Internet ->  Transmission
> Torrent ->  New
> Select File or Folder
> add a tracker:
> e.g.:
> http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce
>
> do not select "private tracker"
>
> create the torrent
> Add the torrent to transmission, and as download folder select the
> folder where the original file/folder is located.
>
> Transmission will detect the existing files, and will be ready to seed
> the file to your friends.
>
> Email the created torrent file to your friends the will have to add the
> torrent to their bittorrent client.
> If the don't have a bittorrent client installed (Windows) check out
> deluge: http://deluge-torrent.org/ (there might be the need to restart
> windows after the install of deluge)
>
> if the don't have administrator privileges they may want to try:
> http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/utorrent_portable (Not Free as in
> Freedom)
> Linux clients should have a bittorrent client installed.
>
> It works like a charm + all Files are checked after the download.
> In order to transfer the files the seeder and the leecher have to be
> online at the same time. Contrary to conventional downloads it doesn't
> matter if the transfer is interrupted.
>
>
> If you want to transfer the file to several friends the usage of
> bittorrent will speed up the transfer (if your friends start seeding, too).
>
> If you have some secret documents to share you might want to create an
> encrypted archive before creating the torrent.
>
> Franz

While I'm inclined to go with Dropbox, this would work equally well.
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