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Announcing GShare 0.90

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2006-04-29 19:06. Bag of Software
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GShare is a new GNOME application that allows users to easily share their files between computers with GNOME installed.

This program includes a compact built-in FTP server and uses Avahi to publish the user's shares on the local network. GNOME users can immediately browse shared folders and Windows users, after installing Bonjour for Windows, can also enjoy the same ease of use.

Project homepage is http://yimports.com/~cpinto/projects/gnome/gshare.

SFTP discoverable

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Tue, 2006-05-02 00:47.

Yes, SFTP (SSH) services are visible from Nautilus. It just needs to be published first as atleast openssh doesn't support howl/avahi. "mDNSPublish somesftpserver _ssh._tcp. 22" on the console is enough. But I don't like sftp because it's _slow_. Just try transferring files with NFS or regular FTP and compare the speed to SFTP and you'll see a big difference. That's why I have been waiting for something like GShare: an easy way to share files, and with reasonable performance.
-WereCat

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