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Computer to Computer Folder Sharing Program?

PLEASE READ: I want to be very spisfic on this, so to make sure I get the right answers.

I want a program that connects a computer to a folder located on another computer over the internet in real time. Allowing instant Read and Write access to that folder. I also want the program treat the folder as a virtual drive on the computer looking at the folder. Reason why....

I want to make two visual basic programs (one on each computer) that interact with each other by using the richtextbox loadfile and savefile commands into the shared folder so I can make a virtual network between the two.

My Computer is XP professional SP3, and will host the folder

My friends computer is windows 7

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Hi,

    There are a few free applications that claims it does provide this service

    Yousendit

    http://www.yousendit.com/solutions/file-sharing/sh...

    Dropbox

    https://www.dropbox.com/

    Hope one will suit you

    ESER

  • Erika
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Eh, working a server is the only sensible way. Time to triumph over your networking fears and do artwork. There are a team of protocols that proportion information, ftp, sftp, samba (despite the fact that that's often on a LAN, so you might emulate with a VPN), etc. sftp is my fashionable, yet to each and each their own.

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