This is something that my users have been clamoring for, for a long time now.
It is the ability to share large files with external clients, but in a secure manner, e.g. encrypted, access control, time limited, etc.
I don’t want these files on my web server, e.g. www.mycompany.com site. And putting up FTP/SFTP servers is a pain (think, unsophisticated users).
I know there are companies out there offering these services – box.net, drop.io, mediafire, foldershare, MS Live, Google, etc. But I want something under my control.
So far I’ve found few and far between, unless I want to roll my own (always an option). The closest that I’ve come to what I need at the moment is AjaXplorer. There are limitations, but it is usable.
Anyone got other suggestions?
As you know, I’ve been playing around with media players, dvr, etc. for a while now. Started with TiVo series 2, 2wire 2040 (AT&T uVerse), VUDU… and this xmas, I picked up WD TV box.
Originally bought the WD TV (USB only) box as it was onsale for $70 at local BB. But then I found out about the Live model, which just came out. The Live model has builtin wired Ethernet (RJ-45 port), save me time, and besides which I hate USB-to-Ethernet or wireless adapters.
Side note: Most people don’t realize or understand that USB adapters are slow. Doesn’t matter if you use USB2. USB depends on your system CPU (it’s a _SERIAL PORT_ for godsake!). If you have a slow CPU, then you will never get the full bandwidth of your link. Not only that, but it will kill your system performance.
I put the hacked WDLXTV-LIVE firmware from b-rad (http://b-rad.cc/) on my box. Nice. Didn’t really have time to exercise everything (family visits during the holiday season), but works as expected.
How to setup development environment for hacking WDTV Live is here:
http://wiki.wdtv.org/doku.php?id=setting_up_the_environment_for_compiling
This link:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t58720.html
got me started. Thanks to TrNSZ, whomever he is.
I managed to d/l GPL code for v1.1.03 from Linksys and built fw image that works, e.g. I u/l it to my wrvs last night, and rebooted into it. Everything work as before, routing, firewalling and wifi…. phew! 
Next is to adding features/functionalities. More to follow.
I found link to the 1.1.13 src, compiled and have been running that for last week or so. So far so good….
I feel like the Phoenix, or rather my web sites behave like one…. they crashes and burn, and go through many iterations… each time, rising from the ashes and restart life again.
Except they mutate, becoming better (hopefully!) and evolve.
This is either the 5th or 6th version of my blog…. lost track of how many time I’ve restarted, recreated it!
Bear with me while I recover the lost stuffs I had on my last version. That server hard disk crashed hard and I have not been able to go to the datacenter to recover the drive.