i am thinking about getting gnutella. i used to have napster but now that thats shutting down i need a new source of music that doesnt involve money. i read the... uh... gnutella manual i guess it's called, and it says that its all sharing. does that mean that say someone who is doing a report on William Somerset Maugham can download the report that i did on Maugham? please respond.

thanks

gnutella sucks *** don't waste your time

Hallo:

this will only be possible if your file is in a shared* folder and properly named, so that somebody could do a query for eg. Maugham and come up with your file.
But it is not possible against your will. Check your shared folders to be sure you are sharing only things you want to share.

Greetings....


*shared within your gnutella servent, of course.

thanks, but how do i choose whats a shared file and whats not?

Hallo:

I can not give you proper advice right now, for I do not know which servent* you use. If you tell me that, I will give you a better answer ;). And maybe there is a misconception also: You do not choose to share files, so to say, you choose to share directories. So a shared file is a file within a shared directory :).

In the meantime I suggest you to:
1. read the documentation of your servent, if available *grin*
2. Look into the preferences of your servent. For example Gnucleus: [Edit] [Preferences] [Share]; Bearshare (hope I remember it right): [setup] [shared folders]; in other servents it should be roughly similar.

Hope this is at least a little bit helpful.
Greetings....



By the way: Servent means: SERVer and cliENT in one :-)