I vote for passing around a dirty, unmarked thumb drive
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Is there any reason to not just use samba or NFS?
Guess I would not want to maintain a webpage so web servers are nixed
You could still use WebDAV. It's simple and works with most file managers.
sFTP. If you have a machine with a ssh server, it has sFTP capabilities.
Indeed i noticed openssh-sftp-server was automatically installed with Debian 12. Guess I’ll look into that first. Might be interesting if ppl could choose between FTP or mounting with SSHFS.
(edit) found this guide
Thanks for mentioning it. It encouraged me to look closer at it and I believe it’s well suited for my needs.
Filezilla is also a popular option
I use filezilla but AFAIK it’s just a client not a server.
Yes, I meant as a client. I thought you were looking at options to hook up guests to a openssh-sftp-server
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.
Samba on a Linux user meeting? lol 😅
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.
Wonder which distros they passing
The kid in me hopes its Slackware, but the loser in me hopes its Arch. 😂😂😂
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.
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.
rejetto hfs.
By the life of the party by bringing crossover cable, allowing you run ethernet directly from one laptop to the other for some intimate social networking. Keeps the LAN uncongested for everyone else.
Nice ethernet hardware will detect if you cable is not a crossover cable in this situation and reverse the pin mappings for you.
You could try this: https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
But in general for some quick adhoc file upload classic FTP is still not bad.
Is PirateBox still a thing? IIRC that was the exact use case for those 🙂
Edit: nvm, https://piratebox.cc/ shut down in 2019. I'm old.
That’s pretty cool