On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:20:41PM -0000, Pete Soden wrote: > Freenet isn't a peer to peer (p2p) file sharing platform such as kazaa or > gnutella, as such you don't have a shared file folder as in kazaa. To share > files on freenet you'll need to insert the files onto the network which may > take some time, with this in mind and you still want to share your files the > best way will be to use frost which is a third party piece of software for > the freenet network. Frost can be found at http://jtcfrost.sourceforge.net > and will allow you to insert your files onto freenet, search for files other > people have inserted via frost and communicate with other frost users by the > bulletin board system within it.
No, Frost is the worst possible way to insert files into freenet, unless you can find the Frost-with-FEC beta. It is however one of the easier ways, although it is absolutely useless. If you have no inquisitive drive whatsoever, get Frost and then try to get the FEC version, somehow. DO NOT SHARE FILES OVER 10MB WITHOUT FEC. It is possible but it will be slow and very unreliable. Sorry, the docs on the website aren't very good. There are better ones. Basically, you have a "freenet node", which allows you to access freenet, and which serves freenet request for other nodes, providing anonymity, and caching files. You can access this through various clients, including Frost, FMB and various insertion tools, or through the Web Interface, on http://127.0.0.1:8888/. You really should check that out. There are a number of web sites in freenet linked from the homepage (click The Freedom Engine for an index of most of them). Some of them have files on, and you can publish your own with various tools, such as the Freenet Insertion Wizard, or fishtools, which are available from their own sites. Some of these sites have quite large files on them - it is possible to share medium sized DiVX's for example. Once a file is inserted, it will be available if it is popular, even if the original inserting node goes down. If it is not accessed much, it will be relatively difficult to keep it available, even if the original inserting node is still around. Nobody can see what files you download on Freenet, or what files you upload, or trace a given file back to its originator. The most up-to-date technology is generally available by the web interface. A recent improvement is "FEC splitfiles", which means that large files, which are divided up into 1MB chunks, can still be fetched if a few chunks aren't findable, making large file downloads faster and more reliable. This is NOT supported, currently, by the mainstream Frost. So try playing around with the web interface, and some of the software you get there, and Frost. Freenet is rather different to most "filesharing" tools, in very many ways. It is not, currently, a Kazaa killer. But it will outlive Kazaa, and it doesn't do the same thing as Kazaa does anyway. There is NO SEARCH FACILITY, because we couldn't figure out how to make one without major security or network flooding problems - unlike most filesharing networks, we take flooding, and security, very seriously. However, since freenet web sites ("freesites") are not traceable, it is possible to anonymously run a portal or a site with lots and lots of, for example, MP3s from a given artist, legal or not, for as long as you have the time, and as long as you do it as an edition site, it will still be there even if you stop updating it. This is more sophisticated than typical "filesharing", but it also takes more work. You will find many files on Frost (sadly the majority of content on freenet), most of which will not be downloadable because frost uses inferior technology to the web interface. You can improve on this by getting the beta frost with FEC support, from one of the boards (frost-test? Details are on the Moviez site I think). There are docs on the freenet website, http://freenetproject.org, and on many freesites in Freenet which you can get to from the web interface. > > Hope this helps > > Pete > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Pazos > Sent: 22 January 2003 20:28 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [freenet-support] how to start on freenet? > > > Hi there, > > I m sorry to email you about this, but I dont understand how start freenet > putting an index page with my shared files and the keys and I dont know how > to found some files over your system. I think, I m probably not the only one > asking you this but could you please help me or give me an information to > find the way how to work with your product. I feel he's very nice and cool. > Hope have news from you soon > Thanks again > Best rgds > David > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://amphibian.dyndns.org:8889/I3mGXPd6zTA/ ICTHUS.
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