Finding a file shared by a specific user
 

Hello,

I'm in China and would like to receive a large file from a friend in the US. I had this person create a file name and put the file in their shared folder.

If I search for this file name, I can never find this file nor this user.

Is there a p2p program that let's you to search by a user name?

I can find this person by using Yahoo messenger, etc. However, this person does not have a static IP address.

Any advise by this means or another means would be appreciated.

Cheers.
Cyberyoda

Re: Finding a file shared by a specific user
 

Yahoo has a central server where you log in, Gnutella not... you can´t reach all people within the Gnutella net.

If you want to know more about Gnutella:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=4638

I would suggest you to set up a ftp server.

Morgwen

It would be more practical to transfer the file via some instant messenger (ICQ, AIM, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger...). You may find it very hard to do it with Gnutella as it is decentralised. Although the fastest way is, like Morgwen said, via ftp.

Ivan
In the dark we make a brighter light

Another possibility would be, to tell your friend to tell you his IP.

You'd then browse his host and choose the file.

Whenever his IP changes, he tells you his new ID, you browse the host again and continue the download.

LimeWire and Phex will continue with the new IP automatically, as soon as you found the file via host-browse (at least afaik). For Acquisition on the Mac, just put "acquisition://[ip]:[port]" into the search bar, and you'll browse his host.

Good luck!

Did you test it? Its some ago that I tried it... it didn´t work. I could connect but the connection wasn´t very reliable and disconnected after a few seconds. As I said its some time ago (two years?), I tried it with Bearshare. About the IP, you can use no-ip. This tool changes your dynamic IP to a static name, so you have only to know the name.

Morgwen

Two years is quite much for Gnutella. If you want a quick survey of the changes, look here: http://gnufu.net and here: http://rfc-gnutella.sf.net

It should work by now, at least I managed to download this way with limewire (but since I use MacOSX I could also simply make my Computer a ftp-server and let anyone download from me that way, and I also did this a few times).

He could also go to dyndns.org and get him a dns-name, then you browse that dns-name.

Thank You
 

Thanks for all that have responded. It seems that FTP will be the way to go. Anybody know of any good FTP server software out there? I'd like something that can support multiple connections.

Cheers,
Cyberyoda

Re: Thank You
 

Here are some:

http://search.tucows.com/search?lang...ds_per_page=20

Ceberus is very easy to set up.

You also need this:

http://www.no-ip.com/

The basic (free) offer is enough. Download their tool it changes your IP to a name.

Morgwen