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i didnt so anything at all - i installed wuala and it worked. same thing did my friend, he's running win2k too. i even tried installing it on a virtual machine with a different (not modiefied cd - on my real pc runs a win2k version i made with nlite) win2k version and it worked. only thing that might be special is that i installed wuala always with administrator login...
and since i installed netBEUI (restarting needed) even filesystem integration works :)
thx @ sunk

Hi Dominik.
I have local admin rights but my computer sits behind a proxy which may be the cause of this connection problem.

@David: When you first start, Wuala tries to get all current Jar files from our servers so that you have the latest version. Probably this update didn't work. Maybe you're not logged in as an admin so that Wuala couldn't store the Jar files?

@Dominik
Thanks for looking at the Win2K problems. Here is a copy of error.log. I hope it helps.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.wuala.platform.Wuala
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at com.wuala.starter.WualaStarter.startWuala(WualaStarter.java:116)
at com.wuala.starter.WinWualaStarter.startWuala(WinWualaStarter.java:88)
at com.wuala.starter.WualaStarter.run(WualaStarter.java:35)
at com.wuala.starter.WinWualaStarter.run(WinWualaStarter.java:76)

@david: we will change the installer along with web start and i really hope it will solve the problems. i had it running on a win2k computer as well (don't have that anymore), but i also heard from people having problems. do you have a .log file in the program directory or anything that could have a look at?

I was able to make make the W:\ drive work on Windows 2000 SP4 (install NetBEUI), but I still can't fast-forward movies I try to view from Wuala like I can from XP SP2. So, I can still upload & download from inside Wuala but its not as easy to use as it is on my XP computer.

@Habasch
Could you explain the steps you took to have it running?
I can't get it to start.

@moritz_
Wuala is a great program. I use it on 3 different machines and like every second of it. I also try to convert my colleagues.

My only peeve is Windows 2000 support. Your previous message gave me some hope but it might be misplaced. So to clarify matters : will your company investigate the problems with Win2k or is it pointless to expect a fix?

thanks in advance

OK. we change our tune here.
Wuala does sometimes run on Win2K, but most people have problems to get it running.

I was looking at dropbox and one of the things I liked was that demo video on their website. I think it's a good way to get an overview of the program's features (yes, people are lazy when there is a lot of text).

For someone who doesn't know what is Wuala all about it would be nice to have a quick tour video showing the basic features of wuala. Maybe you can do this when you launch the open beta.

ehm, i am actually running wuala on windows 2000 and its working fine, except the filesystem integration. everything else is doing like it is on winXP: just fine :)

Ok, yet i have enough invations for 2 Classes :-)

THX

@bugreport: we're just doing it right now...

we haven't made it to the top 5 this time, but we're still closed so no that well-known yet. next time, show some love :)

with web start, you'll be able to send links to your friends who don't have wuala yet. up on clicking on the link, the wuala client will start without your friends needing to install wuala or to create an account (only requirement is java). the link can either be to a public file, or to a shared, password-protected folder. the nice thing about this solution is that the decryption is locally and no except owner and receiver needs to know the pw.

if you'd like to have real http access to your files, we could have have a webserver (as shown yesterday in the chat) which delivers the files. this only works for public files, but you could use it to integrate a file into a blog posting or whatever. if this is requested a lot, we could have it up and running quickly. if it's requested even more, we would also need to take care about scalability :)

i think the web start solution will cover a lot of use cases. the public links are nice to recommend public files, password-protected folders are nice to share files with people who don't have wuala yet - clicking on a link is simple. in the following weeks, we need to make this work smoothly before we release it.

http://lifehacker.com/388284/best-onl...

@bugreport good idea, i.e. link :-)

Well it could be possible I guess, once the webclient from the beta is up and running... The killer feature however would be http(s) access without having to install anything (like on Rapidshare for example, especially for premium accounts: accountname:password@rapidshare.com/etc/pp/yadayada/file.ext) however someone has tho access the files for you then, decrypt them and send them to you - and bandwidth is not free... Maybe a feature for Wuala Premium users? – Bugreport, 5 days ago

Just look here: http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/c...

Maybe there are better countdowns on the web, this was just the first one I found - you have to reload the page unfortunately...

havent used it as of yet. i cant use all the stuff that is out there ;) i just came across it the first time some weeks ago and rememberd the news back then and wanted to add it in here.

cheers.

p.s. the lifehacker vote stuff: if you look at all the candidates/votes there, you will find many of those anonymous/pay-site filehosters there, like rapidshare and so on.

i still miss a feature like that made with the help of the huge wuala distributed storage. it would certainly rock much more than these overloaded traditional webhosters. we would only need to impelment some way of anonymous/pseudonymized access/urls/item-id_s

cheers.

i've just stumbled over a vote about file sharing apps. someone has voted for wuala, thanks for that :) anyway, there you can find a list of competitors, not so much technology-wise, and not so much ... well, see for yourself :)

http://lifehacker.com/387780/best-onl...

@nickname: have you tried alliance p2p?

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