Surprised no one just said Samba or NFS over a tunnel (Tailscale, WireGuard, etc).

Or by “sharing” do you mean keeping files synced between the two for replication?

Station wagon full of tapes.

If you're wanting to share all files, many of the methods already mentioned work well. If you're wanting to share specific files, CopyParty is a good way to go.

You can't beat the bandwidth and reliabilty of mailed ssd's

SFTP or WebDAV would work.

Rsync

Exposing it over HTTP ensures all can access, but that's my best solution. I don't know what your intentions are, or what your pain-points are, or what you're willing to deal with, or what your data is and if it poses a risk to you personally to have it exposed.

Get 'em in the same room together, put on some Barry White, and let the magic happen.

SFTP has been mentioned and is a good choice but this could also be done over torrents too. It’s the other most common legal use besides Linux distros.

LAN party!! You have the optimal excuse to make one happen ;)

If you want a quick and easy way to share the odd file you could set up a syncthing shared folder and COPY things in to it that you want to share. When the other side MOVES them out of the shared folder they will be removed from the shared folder on your side.

The advantage of this is security. No access is given to your system. If your friends box is compromised you dont have an nfs mount or ssh key on their machine. The worst that can be done to you is copies in the shared folder are removed or malicious files are placed in the shared folder but they wont be able to execute.

You also dont need to open any ports for syncthing , it will use relays if it cant make a direct connection.

Sync thing has been great and convenient for me. Use tailscale, zero tier or just raw wire guard to see each other

You could also set up a jellyfin (for media) or gameyfin (for games) container, expose that to the internet and give them credentials.

Just a feeling I get, but open directories and hoarders are going to become more popular.

You could set up a tunnel between the two.. a job that rsyncs a folder to the other server automatically when something is added.

Just a thought.

If you want to run a mirror, rsync over ssh is one of the simplest ways.

Flash drive in person.

They take what they want, you do the same. Boom both are better off.

We use Tailscale to share between accounts.

But for large transfers I use an encrypted HDD.

For large volumes of data, nothing beats shipping a large external drive (with a fast interface) from location to location.

SFTP or FTPS with FXP

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Messenger Pigeons.

Maybe not the best place to ask but, who's down for similar? The how can be discussed

croc is not bad:

https://github.com/schollz/croc

You could do tailscale shared nodes and share just your jellyfin servers that way.

Define share?

Keep all files in sync between two points?

Enable ad-hoc access to all files, or a subset?