Hamachi

[MYstIC G]

Seems LogMeIn are changing the ground rules for Hamachi again forcefully knocking out the ability to run it as a service unless you subscribe. This is annoying as I've just put it on my Dad's two iMac's which are now at opposite ends of the country.

The other reason I'm bummed is because we run CrashPlan to replicate the files out to multiple locations (because a copy isn't a backup, etc.) and this works splendidly as you go "only work over Hamachi IP" and bam, it runs.

Hamachi has been annoying me for a while now anyway because I couldn't run it on my FreeNAS box anyway (BDS=non existent) and the Linux support has been less than brilliant for an absolute age. They;re

So, oh Freddies of the much better networking skills, I have a question:

Is there a simple way to link multiple separate sites over the internet that works across platforms (Win/Mac/Linux/BSD) and will allow basic file sharing?

Basically I need to be able to sit Anywhere(TM) and get stuff off the computers at home.

Before anyone says "subscribe" I would if I now didn't have severe doubts that they're going to keep messing with stuff and if we're going to hit the chequebook I'd rather have something that works on everything.

Cheers!

 

[Tuthmes]

Win/Linux (Samba, etc) yes, but as soon as you enter the Mac into this equation the word free and/or simple goes out. FTP(s) SFTP wil work, but I suppose this is not what you are looking for. Perhaps some backup software could do the trick aswell, but again prolly not what you are looking for.

Edit: Could run a cloud on any one machine and take it from there...

 

[MYstIC G]

Probably my bad for not mentioning but login/password stuff just goes wrong (I work with family). It's more about making the connections across the sites so that they can access stupid windows shares in a kind of mesh. Thanks though Tut.

 

[Tuthmes]

I run a Filezilla server on my Windows 7 machine. Forced FTPs. Tell the others the download an FTP client (Filezilla again, but any one will work aslong as they support FTPs). Ask them what username and password they want (just have to enter it once). Set the download folders and an upload folder with rights to /write/create/etc (could make one for every user).

Still it is too difficult for some. Leftside your computer, rightside the ftp. Having to browse through folders etc. Hence I mentioned a cloud (your own personal one). I havent looked at it good yet, but I think it is what you are looking for. Could be an idea for FH aswell. Just need someone with bandwidth and storage.

It's a shame what they did with Hamachi btw. Used to be ace. It's the fate of every good free program though.

 

[MYstIC G]

It's a shame what they did with Hamachi btw. Used to be ace. It's the fate of every good free program though.

That's true. I'd not mind the price tag if the platform support was there but it's not, hence the search.

 

[MYstIC G]

In a question asked / question answered conclusion to this thread I've found an alternative: www.neorouter.com

It's actually perfect for our needs, I've got it running a server on our VPS and the client just works. Everything gets a 10.0.0.X address, it's got clients for every platform including open routers and you can have 256 clients.

There's a feature comparison with Hamachi as well in their product information and it kicks the crap out of it: www.neorouter.com/products.html