file-sharing

iPhone: How to Share/Move Files from App Directories to Other Devices

Hello everyone I have an app which generates some files in the app directories I need users to be able to access the files from another device/computer via file sharing over wifi, using a web browser, a ftp client or some similar method. Can the iPhone act as a http server and ftp server by itself or do I need to do some programing to...

File sharing service with an API?

Hello! Is there a file sharing service akin to Dropbox or SugarSync that would offer an API? I would like to add a file sharing service to a website, but the full Dropbox interface is still too complicated for my users, so that I’d like an API to build a dead-simple list of files integrated to the website. There is a Dropbox API project ...

What is the best way to implement a website where Users can interact together

Hello Guys I am creating a website where users will be able to chat and send files to one another through a browser. I am using GWT for the UI and hibernate with gilead to connect to a mysql database backend. What would be the best strategy to use so Users can interact together? ...

iPhone Documents directory and UIFileSharingEnabled, hiding certain documents.

I want the user to be able to access the files in the documents directory but am using core data and dont want the user to be able to access the store (the sqllite db), can i hide it from the user while still allowing file sharing, or can i put it in another directory where it will still get backed up? ...

Building a "lecture notes" website with wordpress

Hi all, I wish to build a "lecture notes" website using wordpress. And would love for any advice on what plugins to use, other considerations to have or website that perform a similar task with WP. The website should have a form that will allow users to upload their lecture files. The results should be a new "post". When submitting ...

Notification of changes to the iPhone's /Documents directory

Hello We have an app that uses file sharing. UIFileSharingEnable is set etc. and it all seems to work fine, but I'm looking for some sort of notification of when files have been added/deleted on the iPhone side. Can anyone advise? Cheers in advance. ...

Copying files to NAS - only one folder slow transfer speed.

Hi guys I know this forum wasn't intended for this kind of issues, but I thought that with all this masterminds online, I could get lucky to get an answer here... :-) I've just got a Synology box, and I'm very happy about it. Last night I transfered all my backup, to a folder called "backup". It's about 20-30 GB. At some time, during ...

How can one detect changes in a directory across program executions?

I am making a protocol, client and server which provide file transfer functionality similar to FTP (among other features). One difference between my protocol and FTP is that I would like to store a copy of the remote server's directory structure in a local cache. The server will only be running on Windows (written in C++) so any applic...

iPhone File Sharing: How to recognize when files have been added?

I have file sharing via iTunes working in my application (reference What's New in iOS 3.2) by enabling the UIFileSharingEnabled key, but according to the documentation: "Applications that support file sharing should be able to recognize when files have been added to the Documents directory and respond appropriately." My question is, i...

Accessing network folder with ASP.NET Network Service account

My ASP.NET MVC 2 application runs under built-in local NETWORK SERVICE account. I want to set up access permissions for the folder which resides in another computer, but in the same domain. I located that folder right-clicked to open its properties form, clicked to Security tab and pressed Add button which displayed Add user form with co...

Creating a P2P / Decentralized file sharing network

Hey all, I was wondering where I could learn more about decentralized sharing and P2P networks. Ideally, I'd like to create something to help students share files with one another over their universities network, so they could share without fear of outside entities. I'm not trying to build the next Napster here, just wondering if this...

How to restrict viral file sharing

So I have a website I would like to make that would essentially be selling files. For the sake of discussion let's say that these files are like the raw text of a book. If somebody buys a file from my site, there really isn't anything preventing them from sharing that unlimited amounts of times with their neighbor or whatever. I know th...

iphone and File Sharing

i've added UiFileSharingEnable in mi application plist and set it to yes. Is there a way to test filesharing with itunes? ...

Allow iPhone application to sync with iTunes

In the Apps tab of iTunes, there is a 'File Sharing' section with a list of apps that can synchronize their documents with your computer. What do you need to do to tell iTunes to sync your apps Documents folder? ...

Update plist file in File Sharing folder - I really need advice

I need to open a plist file located in the File Sharing folder, to add two pieces of user info to each time the app is launched; as in a new Name and Email of the user (both are of type NSString and the plist file is Dictionary). It then needs to save the file back to the File Sharing folder again, so that the new updated plist file can...

Mac OSX snow leopard file sharing with windows box

Having a weird issue. I'm new to Macs and have a windows VM that I'm running on a new macbook pro via VM Fusion. I setup a file share on the windows side (Win 7) and accessed it from the Mac side using the "Connect to Server" dialog. I did it successfully several times, even adding in a symlink on the mac side and starting a git repos...

How to read data using ReadFile when file has disabled sharing on read.

Hello, I have a problem, i have a file who opened other process and this process defined in CreateFile non file sharing, then i have other application and i want read data from this file in same time, but how to do. I can't change file sharing in first application. I can reach computer administrator right's, i can do changes in system,...

how i can make windows server 2003 see some directory from UNIX-AIX ?

how i can make windows server 2003 see some directory from UNIX-AIX ? i want share files between windows server 2003 and unix aix 6.1 ...

file sharing on iphone/ipad?

Hi guys I want my app to share files via itunes file sharing. Right now all of the Documents folder is exposed to the user. The problem is that there are certain files there (let's say these are "System files") that I don't want to expose. What should I do? And if it's not possible to "hide" files, where do you think it's best to put "...

CF - Read files from host desktop

I am writing sample app for win mobile devices using Compact framework. App should read files (pictures, .jpg) from host desktop. Is there sample or something build in for task like this? In what kind of relation are device and host when device connecting to workstation using ActiveSync? ...