At 08:29 PM 9/21/2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
 I'd like to, since even at the lowest service level
(5GB) I think the
$9.95 per month charge is a bit much, at least for a cheap bastard like
me.  I'm not sure how secure Samba is but it would be relatively
straight-forward to setup something like this on a Linux server.  A quick
web search indicates the latest versions of Samba have security features. 
With all the p2p crud out there today, I wonder why no one's made
a dirt-simple way for Joe User to share filesystems over the net
with friends at the folder or drive-letter level.  Shouldn't I be
able to drop a file in a folder of a trusted friend?
- John