Ted Capiendo has posted instructions on accessing Apple's iDisk from his Windows PC: "It's kind of complicated and involves emulating a Mac. If anyone knows of a simpler way, I'd like to hear it."
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iDisk is really nothing more than an AppleShare IP server. Why not just get TSStalk for your peecee? Connect to idisk.mac.com.
I appreciate that Apple has developed some Mac only tools and applications. For lack of a better term, it gives a sense of "value added" to Mac users. But, given the very nature of iDisk as a storage volume and mechanism for file sharing, it should be cross platform. Working in a mixed Windows/Mac computing environment, iDisk is almost useless to me because I can't use it to access files from both my home Mac and my Windows box in my office. Given that there are (free) comercial companies that do provide cross-platform storage access already, I feel that Apple should follow suit. There would still be plenty of ways for Apple to leverage iDisk in a way that there are clear advantages for Mac users (read: network storage of preferences in OSX)
Look at the other companies with Internet disks. They are all going out of business! That's all Apple needs is thousands of lame windows users trading their warez and mp3's on Apple servers.
Install AFP over IP on a PC (NetAtalk, Mirimar Systems MacLAN, etc.) and then simply connect to idisk.mac.com with your userrname and password. No big hack needed.
buy a Mac.
PC users should be kicked off iDisk, they're too much of a security and data corruption risk.
If all you want to do is take files OFF your iDisk, then 'publish' your public folder via web sharing and put the files you need to access, in it.
If it's sensitive material then encrypt it. Not a perfect solution but it enables me to leave stuff for my windows using students that they can download whenever they want.
Yeah, get a Mac to use this. Otherwise go to one of the PC sites. Or just turn on sharing at your work PC and log in from home. Oh, wait.
There are many alternatives to iDisk like iDrive.
I know they all suck, but you are using a PC, that sucks too
Actually the public folder is harder to use than the private (full) folder; you need the same username with a special generated password (which is passed to the iTools plugin in a small XML file when you log in using the web page). You can grab the file and record that password for later use from any AppleShare IP client, though.
It would have been much nicer if public folders could be made available by using the username and NO password, but the AppleShare login protocol and implementation unfortunately weren't designed with that in mind. But then, they were designed a long time before iTools-style network storage was envisioned.
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