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What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends? (lemmy.ml)
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I have a Samba mount at home (behind NAT, accessible via wireguard VPN), which works very well when accessing my home files when traveling (I travel a lot for work).

The only detail missing from this solution is sharing individual files with friends. I could give them access to my VPN, but that gives them access to everything, not just one thing I want to share. Also not all my friends are that tech savvy to manage connecting to a VPN.

What would be really great is to have a link-generator that punches a hole in the NAT to give them access to specific files. Are there any self-hosted solutions for that?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if I'm using all of those 100% correctly (e.g. "Public facing"). But either use a search engine,, or just ask.

What terms do you have in mind that you want to learn about?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sorry I meant more what's in that git summary,

    Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps

    I know FTP but the rest I dont really understand. Im often confused by stuff on git.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I haven't looked at that GitHub but I'm familiar with most of the terms so here goes (verify them if you wish, I can't promise full accuracy).

    portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads: portable most likely means it's easy to transfer from one server to another should you ever upgrade servers or anything else. resumable means you can pause the transfers if you desire.

    dedup: it will automatically deduplicate files. so if you upload the same file twice it will just use the one you previously uploaded, saving space.

    webdav is for distributed authoring and versioning. I don't know a crazy amount about it but assume it means there's some code in place that aids with collaboration as far as sending a file, working on it, and reuploading goes.

    ftp: file transfer protocol.

    tftp: trivial file transfer protocol. good for small things but iirc it's not inherently secure

    zerconf: plug and play. no messing with configs needed.

    media indexer/all in one file: most likely indexes media uploaded and stores the generated thumbnails in one big file. most likely this is so it'll be easier to transfer the install to another server if needed (you can move one big file containing all the thumbnails instead of a bunch of tiny ones).

    no deps: no dependencies, everything you need is self contained in that repo.

    again, double check things your curious about but that's my interpretation of what most would agree is kind of just a keyword filled description lol

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