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KDE connect, sftp, and dropping files on my NAS is pretty much all I do.
Work stuff uses work methods though, work devices are "on" my network but fully segregated, so its thumb drive and sneakernet or our internal storage instead.
Syncthing. I connect both devices to same Wi-Fi, copy a file to a shared directory, and wait a minute.
I always have SSH everywhere on everything and I could never understand why anyone ever would want to make it more complicated than that.
Most people probably don't care but it can be a security risk, allowing malware to move "laterally" between all your devices. For my main devices I don't give them SSH access to each other, but I do give them SSH access to my secondary devices (like a Pi-Hole)
[…] it can be a security risk, allowing malware to move “laterally” between all your devices.
Unless you do something incredibly stupid, such as allowing keyless login or sharing keys (or having unencrypted keys or keys without a passphrase, seriously), I find it hard to see how that would actually happen in practice.
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Admittedly, I don't do a lot of shuffling files around from this device to that, however, if I do, I mostly rely on sFTP or SSH.
I use a mix of few things
- kapus.app for starters where a device is completely new and I need to pass some secrets like login to Nextcloud to get keepass or something
- Nextcloud - documents that I rarely access. Some bigger files
- syncthing - for often access files like main keepass. Home server acts as a de-facto hub.
- quick share for an airdrop replacement
- if quick share is not working for some reason I also have a private channel on matrix where I can share some stuff quickly as-hoc
feem worked good for me over WiFi, going from grapheneos to Linux mint.
SSH or a USB stick that has USB 3 on one end and USB C on the other
I have sftp setup on my 2 main PCs and a client on my phone (it's not a server). For the rest of the family who have dual Mint/Windows boots I also have warpinator installed on mine and theirs - it's point to point for the enrolled devices but is currently only setup to work within the LAN.
Primary filesharing is simply the NAS which is visible to all devices on the LAN (can be made available externally but I haven't). This is a recent addition and no one uses warpinator any more.
Edit to clarify I don't have sftp server on phone
Might want to boot up warpinator myself, but from their website:
#Winpinator for Windows PC
For Windows users, this software is readily available for the Windows platform, allowing easy installation of both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It facilitates seamless file and folder sharing between Microsoft Windows and Linux via LAN.
It seems like there might be a slight error in your question. It’s possible that you’re referring to “WinZip” instead of “Winpinator.” WinZip is a popular file compression and archive utility for Windows. If you’re looking for information on WinZip, you can visit the official WinZip website to download and learn more about the application: WinZip Official Website.
???
It looks like some FAQ answer has leaked into their main website. At a quick dig it seems that Winpinator is the original name for the windows port of warpinator
Used to use syncthing for files, now I just mount smb shares since I finally found how to do it on Android. Also kdeconnect is indispensable tool for me.
I use bitwarden send, all my devices already have access to my password database and i can save and download files or text though it. You can also use the URL to let other devices access it if you want.
Mostly Nextcloud, for my Keepass databases that doesn't work though. Because the android client handles files completely different than the desktop versions.
So for that I use syncthing with my home server being a hub, that everything syncs to locally, if I need updates to propagate while I'm not home I VPN in. However I rarely need to do that.
It works for me just fine with KeePass2Android, what exactly is your problem?
Idk rember exactly, on desktop Nextcloud adds a folder structure to the OSs filesystem.
On android it doesn't do that, instead you either open a file from within Nextcloud, which confuses Keepass, and Nextcloud if you change anything. Or at least the sync database feature doesn't work, or smth like that.
If I wasn't careful with adding new entries I'd get a lot of conflicts that weren't a single click to resolve.
Syncthing on Android does exactly what the nextcloud- client does on desktop. So the file is just sitting in a folder, and any changes can be ingested into wherever I have and old version of a database open, by using the synchronize with file option.
I think the problem is that Android doesn't immediately upload the changes since Keepass (which one are you using?) doesn't poll all the time - assuming you opened your .kdbx through "Nextcloud" option. You can always use "Synchronize database..." option of Keepass2Android that will upload or download everything. And even if you have conflicts, they are usually easily solved by merging changes. At least that's my experience.
Maybe its because I use the variant (of Keepass2Android) with "offline" tacked onto the end?
I don't exactly remember why I chose that one though...
Its a running system now, all the syncthing stuff isn't exposed to the internet, so I don't really mind the stuff going on with syncthing-fork atm...
edit: Its a running system, I won't touch it unless I need to...
USB Stick and USB wire?
no need to fiddle with an app, nothing to configure, no updates, works even with relatively big file sizes, surprisingly fast?
My dad found one solution that's specifically for the task (whose name eludes me at the moment), but for me, my nextcloud is a Swiss army knife.
Mostly nextcloud if it's between my own devices.
For getting a file to someone else I had good luck with sharry. https://github.com/eikek/sharry
Thumb drive.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol for encrypted file transfer, over SSH |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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