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Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There is a periodic meeting of linux users in my area where everyone brings laptops and connects to a LAN. Just wondering if I want to share files with them, what are decent options? Is FTP still the best option or has anything more interesting emerged in the past couple decades? Guess I would not want to maintain a webpage so web servers are nixed. It’s mainly so ppl can fetch linux ISO images and perhaps upload what they have as well.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Over WiFi? Pass around physical media. Nothing ruins a LAN party like someone saturating 90% of the connection to transfer ISOs.

If it's a dedicated file server, with its own network, then the obvious choice is Samba.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Samba on a Linux user meeting? lol 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I mean, yeah?

NFS is great and all, but it's not compatible with everything out of the box. Generally, samba is compatible with everything. Linux, Windows, Mac, whatever.

Samba is the obvious choice because it's compatible with everything out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wonder which distros they passing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

The kid in me hopes its Slackware, but the loser in me hopes its Arch. 😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's all fun and games until someone brings a USB 2.0 thumb drive.

The file could transferred over the LAN and the network de-saturated faster the file could be copied off a USB 2 drive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I haven't seen a USB 2.0 drive in 15 or so years. So I'd say you're pretty safe... And even if that were the case, it's still preferable vs hogging the connection for a single file.

USB transfer only affects you with slow speeds until the transfer is done. Network transfer affects the entire party with slow speeds until the transfer is done.

It's the obvious choice if you're having saturation issues, even at 2.0 speeds.