Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles

rammerhammer writes "Sharing files amongst different platforms has most always resulted in using samba -- a program based around the windows file sharing protocol. Chungles aims to provide a nice, graphical, easy configurable file sharing alternative. It's written in Java, uses SWT for the UI, and JmDNS (Rendezvous/ZeroConf/Bonjour) for discovery of computers running Chungles."

Comments

Re:Slightly OT, but fish:// is pretty cool

[gregmac]

It works in at least KDE 3.3. Far superior to using ftp.

I also use WinSCP from my laptop quite a bit, and although it's not directly integrated (feels more like using an ftp browser), you can open files in any program and just hit save, and it will save it remotely (I think it just watches to see if the local temp file it creates is modified).

Re:Slightly OT, but fish:// is pretty cool

[dago]

shfs works also quite well & enable to mount "scp shares" and make them use by any program.

Simple Asynchronous File Transfer

[shapr]

I use saft, the simple asynchronous file transfer system. I don't know if it has a windows implementation, but it's great for sharing files with someone else directly.

Far far better is SFS, the self-certifying filesystem. It's more trouble to setup (unless you use Debian) but it allows you to create a secure NFS mount that can safely be mounted and used across the internet.
I've used it in the past to give read-only anonymous access to a directory, and I could still fly around the world and securely mount the SFS share somewhere else. You probably don't want to mount an SFS share on insecure hardware that might have a keylogger, but it's a great way to have access to all your source code (and research papers in my case) from a friends house in another country.

Re:Slightly OT, but fish:// is pretty cool

[stevey]

shfs rocks!

I wrote an introduction to using shfs for Debian users which might be useful for people who've never used it before.