[Rodney]

iNuron released a pretty neat peace of software last friday: iNuron | Bytes in your life !

This application allows you to access/share folders on your Mac over the internet. To do this you install the server on your own mac and run the browser on a remote machine (Mac&Windows). The browser comes with a spotlight-like searchbar plus thumbnail support, metadata editors, desktops, upload/download, saved queries ..

The product is available as a (free) beta right now, everybody is welcome to give it a go and react on our forum..

enjoy!

Rodney

[Chuckit]

Erm…you can already share files over the Internet out of the box. I'm strangely intrigued as to what this thing does now.

[Rodney]

Hi Chuckit,

I guess you are referring to the iDisk on the .Mac account.

iNuron's approach is quite different. With an iDisk you copy(upload) all the files that you might need when you're somewhere else to your online account.

With iNuron's software you don't upload anything untill you want to use a file when you're somewhere else. You can browse your files / thumbnails but the actual file only get's uploaded when you ask for it on another computer. Because of this different approach you could link every folder on your Mac to your McNucle server , having every file ready to be uploaded to another computer in case this want to use it on that machine.

Another big difference is in the control you have over access rights. With the McNucle server you can give different access rights to different people. With an iDisk you give someone a password or you don't. With the McNucle you can give one person access to one folder, and another person access to another folder.

hope this clear things out a bit..

Rodney

[CatOne]

No, Rodney, you can share files over HTTP/S, FTP, AFP, SMB/CIFS, etc., on a Mac out of the box if you know how to configure it. No iDisk necessary.

[besson3c]

I'd be interested in a poll as to how many people would be comfortable with their data being mediated by a third party like this. Obviously this doesn't stop people from creating GMail accounts and such...

I guess what this iNuron thing does is add a web based bridge into the mix, so that you don't have to make home networking changes to open up your computer to the world?

[pcryan5]

isn't this spam?

[Rodney]

CatOne:
I agree you can do some things yourself if you want, but an average user is not wanting to start configuring this himself. It is less than 6 months ago I configured a public share (SMB/CIFS) on a mac to be available on the LAN. I could not manage to make it cross-platform without touching configuration files via the terminal. I don't see an average user doing that for the functionality we offer. Our application allows you to open your data in a safe and controlled manner.

besson3c:
The data are not mediated by iNuron. All we do is make it possible for your browser (when remotely) to find your McNucle server. Our registrar is more like an application DNS. Once you know the server's address, the browser will directly connect with the server and build an end-to-end encrypted tunnel.

Kind regards,
Rodney

[analogika]

Ah, so it's like signing up with a dyndns service and then clicking a checkbox in the Sharing system preference?

[besson3c]

Rodney: what does this service do if your machine is sitting behind a router?

[Rodney]

analogika:
I just mentioned DNS to explain we don't mediate the data, just allow browsers to find their servers. After that, browsers and servers have a direct, secure connection to transfer data. And there's more to our software than just plain sharing... but I suggest you take a closer look at our website. You'll find lots of info explaining it

besson3c:
we add port forwarding for one port on the router, if you use an Apple router and firewall things will generally work out of the box, more detailed info can be found in this section in our manual

Kind regards,
Rodney