ShareMe - directory sharing for dummies

eazy · 2008-10-09 13:17:45

Hey,

ever needed to share a directory between to computers? Usually this is done using NFS, FTP or Samba, which (IMHO) is a pain to setup when you just want to move some files around...

I've been looking for some simple sharing tool for Linux and I couldn't find one, so I decided to hack one myself
This is why I'm here to introduce you ShareMe, a folder sharing tool that's easy to use and easy to setup.

ShareMe is a small FTP server which will publish your directory, and users can download from it and upload files and directory there.
* No configuration files
* No manuals to learn
* Windows compatible (just fire up Explorer and use the builtin FTP client).

Just open a shell and run:

$ shareme -d ~/incoming/

and that's it!
By default ShareMe runs on port 1987 so there no need to run it as root. You can always change that behavior with the -P switch.

You can find it on AUR, package name shareme.

This is the first version, and I have some ideas I'd like to implement on the next version, so please try it and send me your feedback.
I'm looking for someone who can package/test it for other distros, let me know!

Project page: http://combo.cc/projects/shareme.html

Last edited by eazy (2009-05-26 10:59:34)

Ashren · 2008-10-09 13:33:57

Great idea! Had to set up NFS the other day, which wasn't hard, but a bit time consuming and it feels a bit silly to fire up three daemons if you only want to transfer some pictures. I'll try it out.

tomk · 2008-10-09 13:36:38

Moved to Community Contributions.

IsSuE · 2008-10-09 13:59:22

nice tool, keep it up m8

foutrelis · 2008-10-09 15:00:21

Excellent idea and very clean implementation. Props!

I noticed a few indentation inconsistencies (spaces are marked with green, the rest are tabs):

eazy · 2008-10-09 15:03:38

foutrelis wrote:

Excellent idea and very clean implementation. Props!
I noticed a few indentation inconsistencies (spaces are marked with green, the rest are tabs):

Yea, I know, but I'm using "sw=4" and "noet" in Vim (4 spaces for indentation, which collapse to a tab every 2 indentation levels) so on different configuration this looks ugly, although Python likes this.
I'm fixing this on next releases

moljac024 · 2008-10-09 15:12:52

So it was easier to code this than to set up nfs/samba ?

eazy · 2008-10-09 15:17:33

You bet! The guys who code pyftpdlib should get all the merit! That FTP library is wonderful.
And my code is less than 1K.

Seriously, why should I need to configure Samba or NFS when I need to share something every 6 months...in 6 months I've had at least one reinstall, and have to configure everything from scratch

Btw, I'm working on a GTK+ ui. Something simple. KISS

Dusty · 2008-10-09 16:43:44

eazy wrote:

Btw, I'm working on a GTK+ ui. Something simple. KISS

Er...

Other than that though, great project!

Dusty

genisis300 · 2008-10-09 16:56:32

Very handy
Thanks

Ghost1227 · 2008-10-10 00:25:20

Nice job! One thing, it seems to have issues with directories containing spaces in the name.

Daenyth · 2008-10-10 02:21:53

You might want to look at daf-ftpd (Dumb as fudge ftpd). It's pretty badly written from what I remember though, I think it was using socket stuff directly instead of an ftp lib.

eazy · 2008-10-10 08:42:18

Ghost1227 wrote:

Nice job! One thing, it seems to have issues with directories containing spaces in the name.

Can you explain what you're experiencing?
I can share a directory with spaces in it:

shareme:$ ./shareme.py -d "/home/steph/dir with spaces"/
Serving FTP on 0.0.0.0:1987

And supports subdirectories with spaces...

Last edited by eazy (2008-10-10 08:42:32)

Ghost1227 · 2008-10-10 22:36:30

i tried it with both

./shareme.py -d "/dir with spaces"

and 

./shareme.py -d /dir\ with\ spaces

both times it returned

'dir' is not a directory

eazy · 2008-10-13 22:13:07

Ghost1227 wrote:

Nice job! One thing, it seems to have issues with directories containing spaces in the name.

Fixed in 1.0.1

Odd-rationale · 2008-10-17 18:47:52

Nice script! So simple! I love it. Keep up the good work!

Oh, and if you do make some sort of gtk frontend, please make it optional... I really prefer the cli.

cwjiof · 2008-11-13 10:25:11

Wow, I'm just looking for it, and I love it!

I suggest to add a function of secure sharing, then it'll be perfect.

By the way, how can I stop the sharing?

Last edited by cwjiof (2008-11-13 10:37:16)

denisfalqueto · 2008-11-13 12:15:46

Congrats, man. This just rocks. It can't be simpler.

Rasi · 2008-11-13 14:31:37

I will give this a try.. probably more handy than setting up a ftp server every 6 months when i need one

Last edited by Rasi (2008-11-13 14:39:54)

ninian · 2008-11-17 20:28:11

@eazy,

Many thanks for a great little utility!

btartsa · 2008-11-18 17:23:36

I gotta agree here! Great work!

damjan · 2008-11-21 06:09:03

I've been using this.. It also anounces itself over Avahi (if it's available)

PORT=9999
NAME="Files shared"

import os
import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer

try:
    from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
    avahi = Popen(['avahi-publish', '-s', '-f', NAME, '_http._tcp', str(PORT)], 
            stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
except OSError:
    pass
httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', PORT), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
print '%s published over http.' % os.getcwd()
try:
    httpd.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print 'Finished.'

Shapeshifter · 2008-12-06 15:05:56

very nice. only problem is that it can't share multiple directories. For every other dir I have to start another instance on another port (or I'll get a backtrace about socket.error: [Errno 98] Address already in use). That's a real pity. It should be possible to call it again with shareme -d for another dir. maybe this could be made possible by making a dir with symlinks to the shares and the serving the dir. Though ftp doesn't like it when symlinks point outside the parent dir. In any case, you could also implement a switch to shut down the ftp server gracefully. So, it would be really neat to have:
- the ability to share multiple dirs through this script
- a shutdown switch.

greyarea · 2008-12-08 15:27:55

also check out: "python -m SimpleHTTPServer"

Serves current directory and subdirectories on port 8000

Also there's 'woof' that serves a single file or .tar.gz'd directory on :8080
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14135

ninian · 2009-11-19 20:52:25

I decided to use ShareMe again after quite a long break away so I downloaded version 1.0.2 from AUR. Unfortunately it fails when I try and run it:

$ shareme -d /home/user/tmp/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/shareme/shareme.py", line 48, in <module>
    server = server.ShareMeServer(user=options.user, password=options.password, directory=options.directory, port=options.port)
  File "/usr/share/shareme/server.py", line 56, in __init__
    self.ftpd = ftpserver.FTPServer(address, self.ftp_handler)
  File "/usr/share/shareme/pyftpdlib/ftpserver.py", line 2991, in __init__
    raise socket.error, msg
socket.error: [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address

I tried using the newer pyftpdlib which is in the AUR, but same problem persists.

Any ideas how to fix this, anyone?!

PS: I've also got a slow DNS lookups problem at the moment - I've already checked the DNS servers and prohibited ipv6 modules from loading. Could these problems be related in some way?

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