aMule Forum

English => aMule Help => Topic started by: amuleNewb on December 21, 2005, 05:02:32 AM

Title: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: amuleNewb on December 21, 2005, 05:02:32 AM
I have some private stuff (family vacation videos) that I want to share with a friend without putting the files into the public domain. Is there a way to set up a "private" aMule network with friends/family for this purpose?
Title: Re: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: lfroen on December 21, 2005, 09:27:57 AM
You don't state your question correctly. If I understand what you mean, you want to run private ed2k network over public internet ?
Answer is "yes, but ....". But:


Other possibility is run your own IP network over tunnels (VPN). Then you run ed2k server on that network, solving (1) this way. This solution may require to run VPN server depends on type of tunnel and topology you choose.
You may also choose your ed2k server machine be also VPN server and use ssh tunnels to connect to it.
Title: Re: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: lionel77 on December 21, 2005, 06:01:25 PM
You could also have a pseudo-private network by using file names that nobody would find via a search. These could be either random like "dfhabj3b87bfaj83.avi" or mangled like "M1y.t2r2i2p.t3o.r4o4m4e.avi". However if you are dealing with more than a handful of files this can get very tedious.
Title: Re: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: IhmSelbst on December 22, 2005, 06:21:17 AM
Quote
Originally posted by lfroen
...
  • You must run your own server and make sure only your friends can connect there. I have no idea how you going to enforce it unless all your friends have static IP's.

...
it is possible to run a server (http://lugdunum2k.free.fr/kiten.html) with settings maxstrangers (http://lugdunum2k.free.fr/kiten.html#maxstrangers) to none, using it together with the nickcommunity (http://lugdunum2k.free.fr/kiten.html#nickcommunity) feature. - so only clients with a specific string in their nicks can connect to.


cu
Title: Re: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: lfroen on December 22, 2005, 06:58:21 AM
Quote
only clients with a specific string in their nicks can connect to

Ah, security thru obscurity ? And mind you that this will not help you in case of Kad and client-to-client connects.
Title: Re: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: skolnick on December 22, 2005, 05:32:04 PM
if you do not connect to kad, you should be safe, no? :P

Regards.
Title: Re: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: lfroen on December 22, 2005, 08:42:09 PM
Quote
if you do not connect to kad, you should be safe, no?

No. You still have client-to-client requests. This is P2P network, remember ? Kad is only a way of searching for nodes, not connection protocol.
Title: Re: Can you do a private network with aMule?
Post by: IhmSelbst on December 23, 2005, 07:31:09 AM
Quote
Originally posted by lfroen
Ah, security thru obscurity ? And mind you that this will not help you in case of Kad and client-to-client connects.
of course. also in case of not-empty share, temp, and incoming, if published to another client somehow, perhaps nickthieves and whatever else.

but that was not the problem. - for me it seemed, you didn´t heard, that it is _possible_ to run some kind of "community-server" that way. ;)
Quote
You must run your own server and make sure only your friends can connect there.
:))

for the threadstarter it would be more safe, if he sets up an ftp- or webserver on his box, and offers the file to his comrade directly and vice versa i think.


cu