File Sharing

[twopeak]

Hello

I can't find a simple app that allows computers, withing a LAN to share files with eachother.
That's why I would like to create an app, that finds all the computers, who are running my app, so that files can be shared (in fact, it's a little bit like what windows offers, but I would like to create it myself)

Where can I find tutorials about this? I'm not familiar at all with networking in VB, I learned VB5pro (general stuff and databases)

any ideas?

[BitBlt]

if, by file sharing u mean something similar to napster, then you need to create a client and a server.
i don't know of any tutorials as such, but what i usaully do is download the source code of an app similar to what i want, and see how it's done.
a good place to go is http://acky.net/vb (or your case http://acky.net/vb/vbtcp).
if u want some help with the your project, email me(greentelephone@hotmail.com)

[BitBlt]

so you mean like Network Neighborhood ?

[twopeak]

yeah, but I can't use the network neighbourhood from windows, because the administator turned it off ;-)

[oetje]

I think this (http://www.planet-source-code.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.12224/lngWId.1/qx/vb/scripts/ShowCode.htm) app does what you want. It's written in vb and it's open source.:)