looking for a storage site. . .

[vhelp]

Yes,

I'm looking for a storage site. I found this site:
http://www.filesanywhere.com/index.asp
but I can't seem to figure out how to give other people
access to it, without having to resort to giving them my
password - my temporage storage (it's only for 30days).
But, it does offer 50megs. I was hoping to store some
small clips for you people to view, etc., but this place
does not seem adequate enought. So, does anyone know of
any site(s) I can try 50megs or more, and have the ability
to give others temporage (non-destructive [readonly]) access
to it? I would really apprecate it!

Thanks.

[gambit32]

The free web space sites are dropping like flies. I wouldn't depend on one simply because they impose limits on file transfers (both size and number of transfers allowed) and generally transfer speeds are slow.
If you have the hard drive space to store the stuff yourself, your best bet would be to set up a server and let people transfer to and from you. It's really easy to do with a program like ServU. You can set how many files and size limits people can download from you. You can set individual accounts with different permissions. Like you can let some people upload, resume, or make directories. You can also set up/download ratios (but that's cheesy). Most of all you can set it up so that the only people that can delete files are the ones you give permission to. Basically you control what they see and what they can do on your server.

[vhelp]

Ok,

This (above post) doesn't sound like a bad idea, if I could find the ability to re-image my hd every day - so's that even if I did get attacked by worms and virus's ect., it wouldn't really bother me cause I'd just be re-imageing the hd anyway. Assuming that I were to embark on your advise, do you know of any DOS imageing apps? Not somthing that has a zillion files to install, and takes 10 hours to burn through all your registeries, etc, such as a few apps I've bought and tried (and am stuck with). I just want something simple (if possible) to i.e., ask me what directories to image, or whole hd to image, and away it compresses and images to media, i.e., zip, cd-rom disk, etc. I really just wanna pop in a CD disk (every day, when I come home) and let it do it's thing while I go and prepare dinner, etc. I would really like some more info on this imaging though. And, what about this "ServU" app. Is is free(ware) shareware, $$$, trial version availa? etc.
Anybody??

Thanks all.

[djstealth]

I strongly recommend Norton Ghost from Symantec. It is an powerful hard disk imaging tool.

[vhelp]

dj,

no affense, but anything Norton, sounds too big for me! I certanly don't need another hungry 300meg'r stealing more of my pressious hd space. I just want someting small, and maybe DOS operatations (don't foreget the long file names). I have a few Norton apps that I bought (not Ghost), but these apps are nothing but hungry HD space eaters. And, they don't always stay on my HD anyway (due to the headacke they end up causing me). I don't it to be someting that i'll end of removng from my hd.

Thank you for your suggestion dj, and I would look into it, but it really sounds to big for me and proably too complicated (will probably ask a zillion questions). Anyway. . .

I'll keep researching! Anyone else got any suggestions??

Thanks again.

[iant]

vhelp,
Ghost isn't your normal Norton product. ( It's not only small but it works too. )
The working bits of it fit on a floppy. Can't get much smaller than that!
There are a couple of others out there but Ghost is probably the best of them. I have that and a 300 meg image of my C partition on the D partition. Makes a Win-Enema a real quick operation.

( Couldn't resist throwing my two cents worth in. )
Have Fun,
Ian