[ubuntu-uk] Sharing files and folders between two 14.04 machines

[Liam Proven]

On 17 October 2014 15:19, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a fair question, but to be honest I don't really use anything else
> but ssh/sftp - anywhere.
>
> If I need to move a *massive* amount of data then I'd probably use nc but
> those occasions are rare.
>
> If the original enquirer wanted to they could also use sshfs [1] and make it
> more permanent too.

I must say, it seems a bit sledgehammer/nut to me.

I mainly use Samba 'cos it Just Works™ and my home server (back in
London) was running Windows Server 2008 (mainly as a learning
exercise, but also as it was built out of weird bits of old hardware
-- e.g. a Dell PATA/100 hardware RAID controller -- that was just
easier to get working with Windows).



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