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Hey there,

I'm looking for file sharing software (BitTorrent/Magnet/Gnutella) that support multiple users across several computers in a network. So I want to be able to start a download from several computers (through an easy interface) and it'll start a download at the "serving" computer. I know a few download managers have a web interface (shareaza, free download manager), but I'd like the people in the network to download files as easy as possible.

In basic terms: download as if it were local, but actually store it on a server and view downloads started by others too.

Can anyone help me?

I am probably missing something in your post, sorry.

But couldn't you just have the "server" computer have the file on HDD and seed it through torrents. Host the torrent on a website and download it through bittorrent? Just use Azureus and it's built in tracker so you don't have to use a public one if you don't want it to be publicly downloadable.

It's kind of hard to explain (that's probably why it's hard to find for me). Basically, I want a central computer that handles the downloading. I could indeed use a central computer with a remote desktop or an online interface, but I want something easier. Like, when I open a torrent on my computer, the server should start downloading.

uTorrent has a web client that communicates with a installed uTorrent on a computer I believe. Didn't look into it much but you could have uTorrent running on your serving computer and have everyone else start downloads via the web client.

Yes, the web client is very nice, but it's not that easy to open up a torrent with it (at least not as easy as a local uTorrent).

I don't really understand, are you trying to download one file on to many computers automaticly? Or add torrents from any computer to one server?

The second, yes :)

Something similar to this ?

Yes! That's pretty much what I want! :)
Although this is more like a work around.. Does anyone know if there are programs for/like this?

There's no specific program that I know of that would do this. Do you need a program, or want simple alternatives ?

If there's no program like it, I might make it myself, because I'm sure more people will use something like this. But it would be even better if there's a good alternative :)

If it helps, wTorrent and rTorrent are quite a good combination. You could probably even write a script with Simba and appa that submits the .torrent files to the web interface so the user won't even have to upload the files him/herself to the web interface. :p

I just set this up…

rtorrent = backend for the torrents. (You'll need a linux server / seed box)
wtorrent = web interface for the torrents. (You can even just give it a torrent link, and it will download the .torrent and start the download)

lighttpd as web server, but apache works too.

It seems to work nicely… :)

So basically you would want 2 programs, 1 which would run when you used a torrent file, and would move it to another location, on the "server" computer. and a second which is on the server computer which automatially checks a folder for new torrents, and if it finds one, starts them…

Edit: uTorrent can automatically load torrents from a directory (Options -> Preferences thent to Directories)
so you only need the first program…

From: Bad Boy JH
So basically you would want 2 programs, 1 which would run when you used a torrent file, and would move it to another location, on the "server" computer. and a second which is on the server computer which automatially checks a folder for new torrents, and if it finds one, starts them…

Edit: uTorrent can automatically load torrents from a directory (Options -> Preferences thent to Directories)
so you only need the first program…

rtorrent can do this too.

most probably can, but I have only ever used uTorrent…

From: Bad Boy JH
most probably can, but I have only ever used uTorrent…

But uTorrent can't run on a server… :)

Why not?

From: nielsie95
Why not?

Because it needs a User Interface to run, so you'll need either Windows Server with VNC to run it, or an other display server. But I can assure you that VNC isn't a pretty way of working, not even locally. :p

Hotline 1.2.3 and KDX where excellent P2P based server client packages. Both discontinued sadly. Most of my AKAI Sample collection comes from roaming hotiline and kdx servers. I used to run one myself for quite some time.

It was a community based, with a messagebaord, public and private chat. Basically a great place to hang around with friends and download from the server at the same time.

From: Wizzup?
Because it needs a User Interface to run, so you'll need either Windows Server with VNC to run it, or an other display server. But I can assure you that VNC isn't a pretty way of working, not even locally. :p

uTorrent webinterface? Just too many seedboxes use it.

From: Markus
uTorrent webinterface? Just too many seedboxes use it.

AFAIK it still needs to run a UI. But AFAIK its webinterface is quite lacking too? Compared to rutorrent or wtorrent anyway.

uTorrent's webinterface is one of the best around actually, and compared to wTorrent it seems to be more stable (less timeouts) and it had some issues (although those are probably resolved by now). Source.

From: Markus
uTorrent's webinterface is one of the best around actually, and compared to wTorrent it seems to be more stable (less timeouts) and it had some issues (although those are probably resolved by now). Source.

Even though I read the article a week ago, I'd still like to point out that the first point of that site is stating that the WebUI of uTorrent makes the data transfers for torrents go faster than others.

As already stated, there is also rutorrent or another one (the name slipped by mind), and I can assure you libtorrent uses less memory than uTorrent. Speed obviously won't differ.

I'd like you to remember that this is not a thread about BT clients. Also, I'm not looking for a web interface.