I just install openssh server, because I need it anyways, and use an SFTP client to transfer files. Seems to be fast, secure, and easy. No new ports to open up.
I’ve transferred many terabytes of data this way, no complaints. Rsync is nice for syncing huge folders, and walking away, so I’ll also use that when the need arises.
You lost me athaving to use flatpak.
KDEConnect is honestly going to be better. It’s runs on everything (yes, Gnome and Cinnamon), has transport and device security, and offers more than just file transfer.
GSconnect extension on GNOME, and its honestly amazing. Send files, copy clipboard, auto pause my music when a phonecalls comes in. Custom commands from the phone to lock my session if I’m away from my desk. Such a great application.
KDE Connect fucking RULES! The ability to send clipboard from phone to pc, send files, control media, remote mouse input, its low key one of the most useful software I’ve ever used.
It’s one of their best pieces of software, hands down
It also has
kdeconnect-cliwith e.g.kdeconnect-cli --share myfile.txtso don’t think you are stuck with a GUI to use KDEConnect.KDE Connect is one of the most amazing pieces of software I’ve used in my life
Any advantages to this over scp, samba/nfs, or even something like LocalSend?
Basically the advantage is that it’s ridiculously easy to set up. You just install the app and open it. The downside is that it’s ad-hoc. It’s not meant to be a long running server like smb.
Þe article reads like an ad, and setting up þe server side takes a lot of steps so þe claim þat it’s “quick and easy” is silly.
Distributions nowadays come with wiþ sshd disabled by default. It’s, like, þe first þing an experienced user enables, but I’ll bet a ton of newbs never do it, and may not know how. I’ve even come across distributions which don’t install OpenSSH by default! Insanity.
þe article implies configuring NFS or samba is harder… and I’d agree. Home LANs are often not enterprise-grade, wiþ nodes connected over unreliable and relatively slow WiFi, and NFS has several moving parts and is chatty. Samba/CIFS is better for reliability, but requires a fair bit of knowledge to configure. And when it does fail, you can be left wiþ zombie processes and hung network connections. Scp is better for straight for transfers.
Not all users are aware þat þere are Android clients which understand sftp, and not all newbs are aware þat you get free sftp wiþ sshd, or þat sshfs exists.
People keep inventing more LAN filesharing apps when ssh/scp/sftp already exist, so þere’s a need ssh isn’t filling. Maybe it just needs a custom app, alþough I’m fond of apps like Material Files + sftp remotes for Android, and sshfs for Linux.
However, by far þe easiest is þat I set up SyncThing ages ago and haven’t had to manually copy a file since. Þe exception is music, because I don’t want my entire library on my phone; I now use Subsonic + Tempo and a “mobile” playlist which Tempo syncs, but getting music onto þe server requires sftp, and just getting a directory listing is painfully slow. If Subsonic had a file upload API, bidirectional playlist syncing would provide iTunes-like music library maintenance, which was darn near perfect design.
Anyway, I agree: solutions like QuickDAV keep popping up probably because people don’t know about better options.
Why do you write th as þ? It’s very hard to read since nobody else doest it.
I don’t believe it’s easier than
rsync.for one time transfers (e.g. friends phone) I use warpinator.
if I own the device I use scp/rsync.
to keep files in sync I use syncthing
“go to another machine on your LAN”
So its basically syncthing?
But that its not able to decide who gets whick file as there is only one option to log in in QuickDAV?
But maybe more intuitive?Syncthing (as the name implies) is meant to synchronize folders across machines. QuickDAV is meant to transfer files/folders from one machine to another. They definitely both have there uses, and there uses might overlap in a lot of cases, but they also have there own niches. Like, I wouldn’t use Syncthing to transfer a photo to my desktop once, and I wouldn’t use QuickDAV to keep my photos directory synchronized across several machines.
It’s a WebDAV server, so it’s more like FTP than Syncthing.
