share folders for certain hubs or users

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schoonmoeder
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share folders for certain hubs or users

Post by schoonmoeder » 2004-12-08 12:33

hello all,

i'm new here but looked to the topics but can't find a topic about sharing stuff.

i have like different stuff from movies to games from music to programms. In some hubs i only want to share my games and programm others i only want to share my movies. i'm dutch so i want to say like i want to share my dutch movies only in this dutch hub.

can there be a feature build in?

so to be short. Folders you share wil have tabs like: (right mouse button)
1. all hubs (marker to select default wen added into shared files)
2. only favorite hubs (marker to select)
3. only favorite users (marker to select)
4 specified hubs (this one would have some kind of window with the hubs and a marker to select)

thnx in advanced

Ewart ten Brink

P.S. i think this would also help with persons not sharing porn on hubs where it is forbidden. or persons having there own group of sharing in there own hub without others. but the chat would be open for every one

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Post by Shroom » 2004-12-08 13:19

Different shares on different hubs has been discussed about a million times. It simply can't be done with the current protocol, due to technical reasons. A new protocol, ADC, is under development, so this feature may be a reality in the future.

Lennholm
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Post by Lennholm » 2004-12-08 14:25

Different shares on different hubs has been discussed about a million times. It simply can't be done with the current protocol, due to technical reasons. A new protocol, ADC, is under development, so this feature may be a reality in the future.
Really!? I can't see why this must have anything to do with the protocol. To me, this sounds like something that could be controlled purely by the client, pre-protocol datalayer. If not, please explain how come.

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Post by PseudonympH » 2004-12-08 14:58

Because you can't tell what hub a person is connecting to you from and must guess from the nickname, which is very easily faked. I'm sure fusbar will chime in with a more thorough explanation. ;)

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Re: share folders for certain hubs or users

Post by Todi » 2004-12-08 19:19

schoonmoeder wrote:i'm new here but looked to the topics but can't find a topic about sharing stuff.
I'm going to assume you are also completely new to searching, since we get this question about 2-3 times a week. Please take a moment and look around....

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Post by Lennholm » 2004-12-09 15:14

PseudonympH, I'm aware of that, but the way I see it this feature wouldn't primarily be to prevent users from seeing certain elements of the share but more to clean up your share and keep it in line with what the hubs specializes in, so I don't see nickfaking as a problem here (by the way, if a user wants to see your share for a hub the user can't access, he/she would have to fake a nick that is found in that hub, right? And he/she can't get one of these nicks because he/she can't get in to that hub, right?).

As of now, my share contain movies, music, installationfiles, cd-images etc. If I want a mp3 and enter a mp3-hub, I'm sharing all of these things to the hub users. I'm pretty sure that's the case with most of the other users as well, they also share many things other than mp3. Therefore, in this mp3 hub, you can't find more mp3's and less of everything else than in any other hub; the idea of specialized hubs doesn't work.
If DC++ could have a special share for a certain hub, when a user searches, the client checks which hub or hubs the user is in and returns results from the correct share. When a user wants to download your share, DC++ does the same thing and also merge shares if the user is found in more than one hub.
Ofcourse this wouldn't be an optimal solution but the advantage of having this feature would compensate for the potential issues.
The issues I can think of right now is:
If two different users in two different hubs have the same nick.
If one user uses different nicks in different hubs.
Potentially heavy load on system if DC++ searches for the user in the hubs every time someone make a search.

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Post by TheParanoidOne » 2004-12-09 16:32

This has been discussed many times before. Please don't make us waste energy in repeating the same information over and over and over and over again.

ie. search and read through the existing discussions.
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Post by Todi » 2004-12-09 18:27

Oh boy, what a large amount of energy and time you could have saved yourself. Not to mention us..

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Post by Lennholm » 2004-12-10 08:51

No no, my word processor did all of that :wink:

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Post by PseudonympH » 2004-12-10 22:01

Any chance I could get that to use for my English class?

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