On 5/31/24 22:37, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 31 May 2024 at 17:30:19 (+0100), mick.crane wrote:
On 2024-05-31 13:58, gene heskett wrote:
On 5/30/24 20:09, mick.crane wrote:
On 2024-05-29 15:07, Carter Zhang wrote:
Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over
LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop,
NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot, but they have respective
problems.
I don't know if sshfs would have issues with more than one
connection.
It does not, I have open sessions to 6 other machines here,
possability's of up to 10 if all are turned on.
AFAICT from your posts Gene, you are the sole user on your LAN,
so "sharing files" takes on a particular meaning.
I only drag stuff in and out of the directory in Thunar. Dragging from
the directory takes a copy. I wondered what would happen if somebody
deleted a file while you were half way through fetching it.
AIUI you get a race. So unless you elaborate on who the potential
agents are on your LAN (spouse, kids, kids mates), I don't think
sshfs would be an appropriate choice, and neither does an author
of the wikipedia page:
"SSHFS is an alternative to those protocols [A(pple)FP, NFS, SMB]
only in situations where users are confident that files and
directories will not be targeted for writing by another user,
at the same time."
Well, since I'm alone, my wife passed 3.5 years back, and was not
computer literate, its my show. And sshfs Just Works. I use this machine
as the src for my output for some 3d printers, although the 4 linuxcnc
machines are largely standalone in that the gcode I run on them was all
written by me on that machine.. I often have more than one login session
to a given machine because that machine may also be its own buildbot.
Every machine has access to the world, but its all hidden behind a
dd-wrt running router doing the NAT. I don't have to fight with
samba/cifs and its daily updates to keep it working, permissions are
100% linux, nor do I fool with nfs and its weekly updates that always
break it.
But age is playing a role too, I have short term memory problems.
Perhaps because of my age, I'll be 90 in October if I don't fall over first.
The only dis to ssh and friends has been the local key files and keeping
them up to date. That's very minor, its probably been a year since a new
install on one of my pi clones had me hunting down an aging key file.
Nothing like this broken bookworm install, its far more annoyance than
any of the other problems. I'll miss morning roll call, and disappear
soon enough and then it will be a bit more peaceful here.
In the meantime, everybody take care and stay well. You are my
connection to the rest of the world.
Cheers,
David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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