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I looked into Dropbox... doesn`t look like it has individual usernames/passwords.


Also, yousendit is cool but I need to sometimes share files with 25-30 people and I don`t want to do email.


I want something where every client has their own personal page.


EB

 

 

Perhaps you could do that with Google Sites / Google Apps.

 

http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html

 

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

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Sure thing.

 

How I think it'd work is that you'd set up accounts for each person. Then, you'd generate a Google Site (website) for each one that, aside from you, only they would have access privileges to. The individual websites would be simple, made for sharing files, and take (literally) less than a minute to generate using Google's automated process.

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Another way of working would be to setup some kind of PHP or CGI based filemanager on a web server. If you know what you're doing, it takes very, very little time to setup and is literally "what you're looking for".

 

You'd setup the software on whatever is hosting ernestbuckly.com, folks would go to ernest.com/files and they could login (or register, depending on the software).

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I looked into Dropbox... doesn`t look like it has individual usernames/passwords.


Also, yousendit is cool but I need to sometimes share files with 25-30 people and I don`t want to do email.


I want something where every client has their own personal page.


EB

You can definitely do private shares. But your clients will have to get Dropbox accounts. They'll probably do OK with the free tier, but I suspect you'd eat up the 2 GB in the free account in no time at all.

 

 

Do you have your own website? You can set up password protected FTP accounts for them fairly easily if you're web-savvy. That said, I've heard of some people who just can't seem to figure out how to upload to or even download from at FTP site.

 

An alternative is simply to create an impossible-to-guess URL for each block of client files -- and be sure you don't link to them (or the folders they are in) from anywhere on your site or on the web (which, of course, would blow the whole 'secret' URL thing). You send them the link [something like http: mydomain.com/gl30gng0by73jge8gnsdklzwbgh/sometune.mp3 ] and tell them not to share it. Of course, that won't let them upload to you.

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I agree- you can setup private shares on DB, but it is a tough solution unless you are doing a lot of work with someone. I use it for my agency clients...

 

But there are better solutions.

 

Here, totally easy solution I setup for a client last week: http://www.filemanager.net/site.php?page=Home

 

I took me less than an hour and seems to do everything that is necessary. There are a lot of free alternatives. Basically, you give your clients a username/account, they get to see what you want, it's really intuitive, and requires them to do nothing other than visit the site.

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In my opinion it should be made easy for clients --- > link + password + login

 

http://www.mydrive.ch/

 

 

2 GB are free, have about 10 free account.

 

 

 

I need a site where I can upload music for clients where they each have their own username/password where they can stream/download files.


Anyone know of a site that does this?


Thanks,

EB

 

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Hey Guys,

 

Thanks for all the suggestions! I have some surfing today tonight while I`m listening to Zaks/Jeffs Second Life performance at 9p EST. Tune in if you can!

 

As for my website... I have one and its all done on iWeb so its very easy. I maintain it myself and know absolutely nothing about web design so adding any sort of code is out of the question for me.

 

EB

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