File sharing software

[Torbjorn Tornkvist]

Just a short comment: I've been thinking of building a
Davenport look-alike, i.e using Yaws and the esmb app.
it would be easy to build a Web portal through where you
can access Windows/Samba servers. Using WebDav (e.g in IE
you can open a web page as a Web-folder) you would get
drag and drop in Windows just as for any other folder.

Note: my intention was to use esmb as *one* type of backend,
i.e you could replace it with ftp, p2p or whatever.

--Tobbe

Claes Wikstrom wrote:
> Jay Nelson wrote:
> 
>> Everyone seems to be using digital cameras and video cameras.  They 
>> are emailing the results among family and friends.  A new group of 
>> companies is providing a file sharing alternative instead of email, 
>> that is built on peer-to-peer or even bit torrent:
>>
>> http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/01/technology/business2_launchpad0501/index.htm 
>>
>>
>> This should be a no brainer type application for erlang, except for 
>> the big install. 
> 
> 
> Martin Bjorklund and I had this great idea for a p2p app
> where Erlang would be an ideal implementaion technology.
> We (The erlang community) always seem to be on the lookout
> for this killer app, which is the one that makes Erlang
> widespread, famous ... etc.
> 
> Anyway, the idea was to implement (originally it was
> an NFS server) a virtual SMB server. From the point of
> view of the clients, doing things like smbmount, "Map
> Network Drive" or Mac Go -> smb://myserver, it would just be
> another smbserver. The smbserver shouldn't serve files, but
> rather it should serve files from a virtual network of
> nodes connected with tunnels.
> 
> The first application would be to just connect together
> a bunch of friends homenetworks, thus easily sharing
> copyrighted material over encrypted internet tunnels.
> The tunneling technology would have to be homegrown.
> 
> It would be easy to export different views, it would be
> possible to have a WebUI interface to the smb server to control
> it .... whatnot.
> 
> I still thing the idea is brilliant, it would install as
> a daemon on unices and as a service on win32. No GUI.
> It would be small.
> 
> Bandwidth can be calculated, and it would be possible to
> look at a streamed movie which resides at my friends HD.
> 
> Portnumbers should be allocated in such a way, so that
> traffic shaping (tc in linux speak)can be easily and automatically
> applied to the  bulk traffic, thus ensuring a certain bandwidth once you 
> have
> started to watch a movie.
> 
> Perfect NAT traversal is a must.
> 
> Lots and lots and lots of work, but I think it may be the
> killerapp we're looking for. Neither Martin, nor I are even
> close to have the time to work on it though. We started, but
> last 12 monthes we haven't done anything with it.
> 
> 
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> /klacke
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