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Burch Marcel asked a question in Wuala on May 30, 2008 09:00:

setting permissions to folders?

would it be possible to set read, write, delete permission also for folders? like in windwos filesystem?

Burch Marcel marked one of Roger's replies in Wuala as useful. Roger replied to the question "Share Space?".

Roger replied on May 23, 2008 10:23 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

Sharing personal storage with other users is not planned.

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sunk818 replied on May 22, 2008 20:43 to the question "Server Version?" in Wuala:

> Would it be possible to get special rights for running a server 24h?

It wouldn't be a bad idea if Wuala clients that reach top 5% (or some other percentage) of users that have the highest uptime & upload speed receive are rewarded with more disk space. My thought is that we reward clients that have proven to be reliable and can send fragments to others quickly.

Habasch replied on May 22, 2008 20:06 to the question "Server Version?" in Wuala:

@nickname: i think he wants to give his gained online space to other members or at least let them use it.

@marcel: you can copy files from other members to a different location. afterwards your friends can delete their copies and gain the space back while you keep your copy of the files, so they can download your copies (which use your space). only thing is that you got to do that manually for every file/folder.
about the possibility of wuala crashing: get a program which monitors other programs (i remember something called watchdog, but that was quite a while ago, so you better google for a newer program) which notify you when something happens...

greets
Habasch

nickname replied on May 22, 2008 19:56 to the question "Server Version?" in Wuala:

:start1
pskill -t wuala.exe
sleep 60
wuala.exe
sleep 86400
goto start1

pskill belongs to the sysinternals (now microsoft) package, small exe file, there are numerous others (like process.exe from beyondlogic or what they called and so on)

sleep.exe can be aquired from many places, most easily and trustworthy from the gnu win32 tools at:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packa...

with winxp, win2k3 any whoknows with vista, there is also the tskill.exe builtin command if i recall correctly.

there are plenty of really simple steps to start & kill your wuala periodically and automatically.

about the killing step: i dont know how wuala behaves at the killing step exactly, there are killing (process termination/ending) methods that are more gracefully and there are very lowlevel hardcore killing methods on operating systems. sometimes programs and their data might get corrupted if they dont recognize the killing information and dont normally properly shut down in a controlled manner.

you gotta try it on your own.

but then again, this very question about graceful shutdown and wuala behaviour has been already posted and asked to the caleido/wuala team and they still havent managed to give us real answers on this topic.

go figure.

nickname replied on May 22, 2008 18:57 to the question "Server Version?" in Wuala:

what operating system u running wuala on? most of the oses you can write simple scripts and create automation tasks, even with windows.

you can kill the wuala process for example on any of the current wuala platforms for example daily/weekly/interval and then simply restart the wuala process.

wuala always updates itself (if possible) during startup. so that would be your update step.

and sharing/storage-trading works without a wuala user being logged in. you only need to start the wuala client. thats all.

write a simple batch script and youre done.

Bugreport replied on May 22, 2008 14:51 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

Well, Space in Wuala is more like "work" than like "money" - you have to do (earn) it yourself rather than just have someone else who throws a few Gigabytes in your direction...

For example: I have ~40 invites left - if I create 40 Accounts, do the survey 40 times and select the "1GB Bonus" and then transfer all that to my main account I get 120 GB from that alone! (40 for invitations and 80 from the accounts) This can easily be scripted and after 1 day I'd have a few Terabytes out of nothing!

No, space should be something that only you can get or use. 2 GB for a new user (1 + 1 for the survey) are far enough for the beginning and after just a few days you can earn storage as well.

Burch Marcel asked a question in Wuala on May 22, 2008 11:14:

Server Version?

i have a server at home which is running 24h a day on which wuala always runs, and some other pc's where im working on with wuala.
Now my questions:
- is it possible to get a server version of wuala which can autonomous restart and update? the only way i realized that wuala had an error and was stopped, was the decrease of available space!
- Would it be possible to get special rights for running a server 24h?
I gained 300Gb of space while server is running, but doesnt really need so much of space. But im interested in sharing this space in my groups, like a upload directory on a server.
Or a other nice feature would be the possibility to mirror my personal files on my fileserver @home to wuala.

thx for answers.

greetz burch

Burch Marcel replied on May 22, 2008 11:01 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

so it isn't possible to grant more space to someone new on the network without sharing my login with him? Thats really pitty.

Roger replied on May 22, 2008 07:04 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

Generally, groups don't have a quota limit. If you post something to a group folder, your own quota is decreased, not the one of the folder owner.

Burch Marcel replied on May 22, 2008 06:58 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

How is it with the space for the group orders? who gives the space for this order? The one creating the order? so then it's like sharing space, if i grant writing access on the order?
i find it much more dangerous for abuse, if many people uses one unpersonal login.

Roger replied on May 22, 2008 06:44 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

@alive88: no, there is no limit. You can use one account on as many computers you want.

Furthermore, buying storage (also for friends or employees, not only for your personal account) will be possible in a few weeks.

sunk818 replied on May 21, 2008 21:55 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

I have four computers running Wuala and if you max trade storage to 100GB, your cloud spaces will go up quickly as your online time percentage increases.

alive88 replied on May 21, 2008 21:01 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

an effective work around.

I guess I could create an ID for the group. There's no limit to the number of places I can run the client is there?

I'll wait and see how the product develops. I'll kick my friend and tell him to invite someone, we only need 2GB max from him. (he copies the contents of a 2GB CD card) - once I have it I process, archive and delete his online copy.

sunk818 replied on May 21, 2008 20:51 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

Let that person use your login & password.

alive88 replied on May 21, 2008 17:34 to the question "Share Space?" in Wuala:

I think point is, he is part of wua.la only because he is giving ME specific files. He's not there to test, his function is only to be part of my work team. He creates files.

I am the wua.la user, I am the one who will install a dedicated wua.la box and will buy additional storage. I want to give him enough storage.