How to share outside your network

Question

If I want to share a folder or a whole drive with people outside my network, how can i do that? Which programs should I use?

Answer 1

Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private network (VPN) application capable of establishing direct links between computers that are behind NAT firewalls without requiring reconfiguration (in most cases); in other words, it establishes a connection over the Internet that very closely emulates the connection that would exist if the computers were connected over a local area network.

Answer 2

You may want to look at DropBox or Mesh.

They are both easy to use programs that will allow you to share multiple people anywhere.

(Not completely sure about the whole drive part, but it will definitely work on folders.)

Answer 3

If you will host these from your home/work machine connected to the Internet,

• freeSSHd (allows FTP too)
  • will need firewall access opened for incoming FTP/SSH connections
    difficult in corporate environment
• Opera Unite
  • will open a share path over the web!

_{If you are setting this up from home where you get a dialup/broadband dynamic address (just in case),
You will need to setup DynDNS for others to see your 'dynamic' IP address.
Or, you could talk with them and share your current IP address.}