Inspired from : https://github.com/Kami/python-twisted-binary-file-transfer-demo

Pyshare is python based local file transfer/syncing app with autoconnect features. It addresses the most irritating problem of entering servers/peer ip address to initate connection.

Requires one machine to be reserved as server

may require admin password on certain platforms ( for ping utility )

It automatically searches hosts on local network running instance of pyshare and connects to them . ('may require admin password') uses md5 for transferring keys for authentication purposes uses custom handshake to determine if instance of pyshare is running on machine or not

Pyshare supports nickname facility and assigns nick to each host/peer on network and further gives user to finger patticular host using nickname

nicknames are serialized using json and are loaded after server is started . Thus nicknames are preserved between server initiations. finger command gives users nick and other details like os they are running

Pyshare maintains log of each activity on network by creating log files on each server start.

log files are stores in logs folder , that is created if it doesnt exists

Pyshare provides network file search .

this technique makes file to be searched on whole network and user is oblivious to the process if files are found on any host on network , pyshare displays the name along with nick ,of host its stored in .

• nick name assignment to hosts
• finger ( information retrieval of hosts)
• network file search
• file sending
• file recieving
• file syncing
• listing of files

Pyshare uses sandboxing to restrict file transfers to a particular folder on client/server machine.

When starting pyshare service , additional argument can be provided to assign a local folder to pyshare for sharing purpose if provided as argument , pyshare creates a folder by argument name if it doesnt exists.

• By default it is 'ctransfers' for clients and 'transfers' for server

For server :

• '--path' : path of folder to be used with pyshare
• '--port ' : server port to run on

for Clients

• '--path' : path of folder to be used with pyshare

to start server ,enter :

python server.py --path<folder_path> --port<port on which to run>  (may require admi password)

to start client , enter :

python client.py --path<folder_path> 

Further pyshare client instances include help option that prints list of available commands