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On Sunday 02 August 2009, Adrian Midgley wrote: > george wrote: > > A couple of weeks ago I saw an article on Tonido in the latest Linux > > Format mag. I need to share photo's with my 4 kids who are scattered to > > the 4 corners of the UK and this looked good. You share as little or as > > much as you want on your computer by installing and registering with > > Tonido which gives a url for your computer. Whoever you want to share > > with also installs Tonido (it's available for Linux, MS and Apple), you > > give them your url and a password and they can access a bit of your > > computer. > > But you can do all that with Apache and .htaccess and if your ISP keeps > changing your IP address (mine doesn't) with a DNS service for that. > > Free. > > And without running someone else's software on your machine or limiting > access to people who also run that software. > > THis is a bit of intermediation, in a process whcih doesn't really need it. Tonido is also free. What is the difference between using it and Apache? I don't have to run and maintain a server, or find out how to do so. All I have to do is set up my firewall, which I should have done anyway, and be careful who I give access to, again a given. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html