[X4U] Making my public folder availble

[Neil Laubenthal]

It's possible to setup your router/firewall to allow folks to connect  
from outside using AFP or FTP or SSH/SCH or whatever . . . but it's a  
bit difficult to do securely. Well, not difficult if you know  
how . . .but since you're asking I would hesitate to do it that way.

There are a couple of places on the net that you can upload things to  
and then send your friends an email with the location . . . as long as  
the file size is less than (I think) 100 MB those work fine. The name  
of the one I have in mind has temporarily escaped me though:-(.

Trying to share it from your home computer is hard to do while  
maintaining security.

Do you have web space anywhere? Usually you can put a directory on  
your web site then put a file named .htaccess inside it . . . with the  
words Options + Indexes in the file. This allows a user to go to the  
directory and get a listing of files from where they can download it.  
For instance . . . if your web site is normally located at http://something.com/Cheryl 
  then creating a directory named Files and putting the .htaccess file  
and the program to be downloaded in the Files directory . . . this  
allows folks to get your web site by going to something.com/Cheryl or  
to view the contents of the directory by going to something.com/Cheryl/ 
Files.

http://www.getdropbox.com works pretty well . . .although I'm not sure  
this is the one I remember.




There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress,  
cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to relating them together  
is Jello.

neil


On Dec 23, 2008, at 11:08, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

>
> Hi all.
>
> I have a program I want to allow a couple of friends to get from my  
> computer. I have several questions about this.