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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.
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.
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=2E
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=2E
but they have respective problems.
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.
SyncThing
On 5/29/24 07:07, 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.
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.
There have already been many answers. And since it's highly unlikely any third party will include support for such a
closed down system, you might want to look at them. At least I don't think Google will suddenly open source Nearby Share
for everyone to write clients for it.
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.
KDE connect? That has clients for many systems.
But the question is, what's the issue with the existing solutions? It's
quite a useless task to recommend file transfer apps when they all have the >same issue you try to avoid.
Richard
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">But the question is, what's the issue with the existing solutions? It's quite a useless task to recommend file transfer apps when they all have the same issueyou try to avoid.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Richard</div></div>
Dear Dan,
Thanks a lot for your reply but I am not clear how to use SFTP, SCP or
NFS on Android. Could you please show me how? Any help will be
appreciated.
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. mick
.
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. mick
It does not, I have open sessions to 6 other machines here, possability's of up to 10 if all are turned on.
.
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.
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.
On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 05:30:19PM +0100, mick.crane wrote:
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.
If you're copying a file, that means some process has the file opened.
Removing (unlinking) a file that's opened causes it to vanish from the
raw directory, but the inode and the blocks of data are left alone until
all processes have closed it. Only then will it be marked for recyling.
You'll just have to hope that the (remote) copy succeeds on the first
try, because once the remote reader loses connection, if the file is
closed on the server, it's gone.
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.
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.
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:It does not, I have open sessions to 6 other machines here,
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.
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."
Cheers,
David.
I have long been plagued by the problem if sitting in a room or on a boat with someone, 2 devices right next to one another, and no trivially easy way to send a file from one device to the other without say first uploading it
to some mutual third party (e.g. whatsapp).
To this day, I have yet ever to see an easy way to share a file between 2 devices without full internet connectivity, except by say getting one to run an ftp or ssh server and ftp or ssh'ing over the file between local ip addrs (e.g. 192.168.x.y). I'd love to know some well know good, not-evil, open source app that runs on all the platforms that I could tell people to
install to send them a file without using the internet. I can't really see any technical reason such an thing couldn't work, say over bluetooth or
local IPs and maybe it does exist, I've just never run across such a thing. The key word here is EASY. I can't be hacking someone's phone for an hour just to transfer them a file.
To this day, I have yet ever to see an easy way to share a file
between 2 devices without full internet connectivity, except by say
getting one to run an ftp or ssh server and ftp or ssh'ing over the
file between local ip addrs (e.g. 192.168.x.y). I'd love to know
some well know good, not-evil, open source app that runs on all the
platforms that I could tell people to install to send them a file
without using the internet. I can't really see any technical reason
such an thing couldn't work, say over bluetooth or local IPs and
maybe it does exist, I've just never run across such a thing. The
key word here is EASY. I can't be hacking someone's phone for an
hour just to transfer them a file.
Michael Grant
I use sshfs, works great to let me drop files on my server from my
desktop. But I wouldn't call that "file sharing". I probably would call that a "network disk" or "remote mount".
There's probably some formal definition out there, but when I think of
file sharing, I think of someone proffering up a single file (or folder)
and sharing it point-to-point with one or some small group of people.
I have long been plagued by the problem if sitting in a room or on a
boat with someone, 2 devices right next to one another, and no trivially
easy way to send a file from one device to the other without say first uploading it to some mutual third party (e.g. whatsapp).
sshfs isn't going to let you share files between say 2 phones, at least,
not very easily if at all.
By recommendation further up in this thread, I tried Google's Quick
Share between my wife's phone and my phone. Followed all the
instructions, did not work. Followed all the troubleshooting instructions. Nope, my device doesn't appear on her phone when I share,
and neither the other way around. Searched the web, found a ton of
people with same issue. It's DoA I'm afraid.
Between family members, we have in the past shared files using a
synology box and their Drive app. It works just like Dropbox except
file is on your own infra. It's not open source though and I don't know
how tied it actually is to Synology's infra. One certainly needs to be
on the net to use it.
To this day, I have yet ever to see an easy way to share a file between
2 devices without full internet connectivity, except by say getting one
to run an ftp or ssh server and ftp or ssh'ing over the file between
local ip addrs (e.g. 192.168.x.y). I'd love to know some well know
good, not-evil, open source app that runs on all the platforms that I
could tell people to install to send them a file without using the internet. I can't really see any technical reason such an thing
couldn't work, say over bluetooth or local IPs and maybe it does exist,
I've just never run across such a thing. The key word here is EASY. I can't be hacking someone's phone for an hour just to transfer them a file.
Michael Grant
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