Re: [Mldonkey-users] How to share some files

[Lionel Bouton]

Dr Aldo Medina wrote the following on 11/12/2003 09:50 AM :

> We want to interchange some Linux ISO's (specifically Fedora and
> OpenOffice 1.1) between a somewhat large distant user group. So maybe
> mldonkey could serve to this (either via edonkey or someother protocol?)
>
> How can we share our ISO's?. Is is just a matter of moving them to some
> shared directory, or should we do something else to "index" them or get
> some kind of MD5?
>
>  

This is doable but not really easy :

Put the files in a directory shared by mldonkey.
Run ed2k_hash (mldonkey sources, make ed2k_hash) on the files you want 
to distribute and publish the ed2k URLs (publish on a web site, send via 
e-mail...).
Have all people join one common server and configure mldonkey on each 
party to always being connected to this server. <- this is not easy...
They can then add the URLs to their download list (they might search the 
ed2k network too, but might find several similar files, using the hashes 
is more foolproof).

If you don't want a full time distributed repository on ed2k network but 
a fast push method from single points of distribution, you should use 
Bittorrent. Nothing comes near this protocol's file spreading abilities 
(Fedora is already distributed by torrents BTW and this is the mean by 
which I saturated my office 1024kbp/s ADSL). mldonkey can be used to 
download torrents (although it's less efficient than the original 
client). Search google for help on setting up a torrent.

> By the way, if we delete a file from this shared directory, does
> mldonkey autodetect this and erase the file from its uploadable list?,
>  

Yes. Not right away but shortly after.

> or should we do something after deleting the file?
>
> TIA.
>
>  

Regards,

LB