My company is looking for p2p software for about 40-50 people.

File sharing, real time chat and what not is needed. Any OS is fine.

We need it private so only authorized users have access, plus we also need admin.

I was looking on this site and i cant find anything.

Maybe some of u have recommendations

Joe

I guess you could run an OpenNap server and a client that can connect using the Napster protocol like WinMX. You could run some kind of firewall software like Kerio Personal Firewall on the server to only authorize specific or ranges of IP addresses to connect. I did this in the past with Napster and Napigator and my own OpenNap server and it worked well.

WARNING: Stupid comment, this will probably not help you.

It would be cool to pipe through SSH.
Would it be OK if people knew your IP addresses, but after that everyone would need to know a "master" password to get on to your "group"?
How about having a central server?
Why not just set up a secure web server or FTP server that needs a password to log in and share files?

Well heres a little more info

Weve got a few servers, and are coloing them in a datacenter in chicago.

It will be a solid connection, plus we can expand to a few other major datacenters if need be.

So are bandwidth capablities are large. Are hardware is solid.

Are problem is the configurations. A few people have mentioned direct connect with the hub module.

Some others have mentioned Hotline server, or samba

How I would like it is this

Central Server
Then authorized users connect.

We've got about 15k files so it is small and want it to remain small.

Just lookin for decent software for managment. It is very critical to only have authorized users have access

Hopefully that helps

Joe