There is a periodic meeting of linux users in my area where everyone brings laptops and connects to a LAN. Just wondering if I want to share files with them, what are decent options? Is FTP still the best option or has anything more interesting emerged in the past couple decades? Guess I would not want to maintain a webpage so web servers are nixed. It’s mainly so ppl can fetch linux ISO images and perhaps upload what they have as well.

  • CyberTailor@lemmy.world
    3·
    21 hours ago

    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.

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    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.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        22 hours ago

        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.

    • oceanAEnglish
      2·
      24 hours ago

      Wonder which distros they passing

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        The kid in me hopes its Slackware, but the loser in me hopes its Arch. 😂😂😂

    • markstos@lemmy.world
      1·
      23 hours ago

      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.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        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.

  • markstos@lemmy.world
    1·
    23 hours ago

    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.