If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.

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This is one file at a time. It’s designed more for very quick “Oops I need that photo” sort of stuff.

What you want to do is better served by NFS, SMB or SFTP.

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Or Syncthing if they want to sync gb’s of files between computers.

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Synced many terabytes, over WiFi, Ethernet and the Internet with Syncthing. It works for all use cases, large and small.

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When we are talking terabytes of data there are faster ways for the initial sync job.

I would just use rsync/sftp/robocopy or similar for that first copy for faster transfers, then setup Syncthing on those shares for delta syncs.

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NFS, SMB or SFTP

ugh.

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Am I allowed to think it’s weird the entire open source community can’t compete with SMB?

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SMB is a protocol that can be used with Samba software in Linux since many years, so there is no need to compete I figure. Depending on the use case, I like to use rsync for copying files across.

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It does actually support several files, folders, or anything.

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