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mr_lebowski

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1. You could also configure your PC as a FTP server and give those people URL's to your PC

Reply to grumpyduck (Original post)

Mon Apr 20, 2020, 07:36 PM

Apr 2020

Of course your PC would have to be on at the time for them to get it.

Then you'd give them an URL like ftp://72.134.45.126/files/myfile.pdf. Where that IP is your public IP address (easy to find out, but it can change occasionally with most ISP's, thus breaking people's ability to reach it from outside your network)

I mean, unless you've registered your PC with a Domain Name. Which you wouldn't do unless you can get a Static (unchanging IP address) from your ISP.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-ftp-server-windows-10

Looks like a lot of work but it's not really that hard

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A little help with file sharing, please.. [View all] grumpyduck Apr 2020 OP

You could also configure your PC as a FTP server and give those people URL's to your PC mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #1

Little overboard for a one-shot deal! Sunriser13 Apr 2020 #2

Once you have it running, you might find it has a lot more uses than first expected ;) mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #4

Oh, you're right, of course. Sunriser13 Apr 2020 #5

The one challenge w dropbox on top of paying for it is that if you aren't careful with backups, mahina Apr 2020 #8

FTP servers CloudWatcher Apr 2020 #6

This might be an option LuvLoogie Apr 2020 #3

FireFox/Mozilla has an anonymous file sharing service. Make7 Apr 2020 #7

Just a cautionary note that even accidentally they can delete the file easily, so have a backup mahina Apr 2020 #9

Any of the file sharing sites will work fine. ManiacJoe Apr 2020 #10

If you already use Google Drive, this is as easy to share files as Dropbox. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2020 #11