qcp is an application to share files on a local network; it was inspired by http://www.fefe.de/ncp/. design goals for qcp: * offer files for "multiple" downloads (ncp offers data only for one client), i.e. "server" or "persistent" mode * offer different sets of files (ncp can only offer one download as it uses always the same tcp port 9002) * discover downloads via multicast DNS-SD (avahi) instead of broadcasts * different tools: * qpush: for simple one time push * qpoll: polls the first "one-time" share it discovers * qcp: gui for managing persistent shares / downloading other shares * abilility to limit bandwidth In order to use avahi from qt there is libqtavahi: * Signal/Slot based avahi api * a QAbstractItemModel qcp offers different methods to share data (method is specified in the 'm' key in the TXT data) * 'file' qcp uses "_qcp._tcp" as mDNS-SD type; so to fake a share you could use this: $ avahi-publish-service 'test share' '_qcp._tcp' 9876 'm=file'