Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual page 183

IMPORTANT: Security Considerations
Before setting up a file server with kpf, check with your system administrator
whether your company's security policies allow this. You should never set up
a file server in a corporate or private environment if you are not entirely sure
that your network is protected by an outer firewall. Otherwise you might risk
accidentally leaking sensitive information to the Web. In addition to that, any
Web server is a potential target for hacker's exploits. Setting up a Web server
in a secure way is a very hard job and kpf was not designed to act as such a
Web server.
kpf is designed to be used for sharing files with friends, not to act as a fully-fledged
Web server like Apache. kpf was primarily conceived as an easy way to share files with
others while chatting on IRC (Internet Relay Chat, or chat rooms).
kpf is typically set up to serve files from a public_html folder in your home direc-
tory. For example, if you want to make a file available to some people with whom you
are chatting online, you can use kpf to copy the file into your public_html folder
and announce to those listening that your file is available at http:///HOSTNAME:
8001/thefile (rather than send them each an e-mail with the file attached).
1 Right-click the bottom panel in KDE then click Add Applet to Panel and select
Public File Server.
A new icon depicting a small globe appears on the bottom panel.
2 Right-click the icon then click New Server.
3 Specify the directory containing the files you want to share then click Next.
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