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How do you share files between your Slackware box and the other machines you have in your house, which may or may not also be running Slackare? I'm aware that there are many ways to do it: SAMBA, ftp, ssh, large thumb drives, eternal hard drives, etc. What methods have you chosen, and why?
I used to run an NFS server, but got rid of it. At the moment I only use passwordless ssh (scp). It's not a big pain as I've configured ssh-keys and there's no access to it from the outside.
I'm not running it now (my switch crapped out on me and has yet to be replaced) but I've always run NFS with success. For sharing between windoze and linux boxes samba is generally recommended, but I have no personal experience with the software.
Currently, using a USB stick. Yes, it's primitive, but there is a reason: I have installed these ethernet over household current devices. They're great because I don't have to run long cables (as this house is a POS and was not wired properly, yes one problem leads to another and another). These things only support 14 Mbps (1.75 MB/s), which is quite slow when transferring files, but ok for internet.. When using just cables I can theoretically get up to 1GBps, but I don't then either, because one of my computers is not using a gigabit ethernet card, because it's Yukon Marvell and it had to be disabled because it messes things up. It was replaced with a Realtek 100 MBps.
crawling behind the computers to plug in usb sticks gets old, tho...
Most PCs have front USB ports on the case, or people use hubs. Our monitors have built in USB ports (6 Total), I have keyboards that have extra USB ports too. Will admit - if I had to plug a usb device into the back of the PC everytime, I'd most likely only use USB keyboards and mice. Syncing the media player and other devices would be a PITA.
The hardware in my towers is (mostly) pretty modern, but the towers themselves are ancient! I can't stand to replace something that still does the job. Not a single one of my towers has front-side USB. The laptops are obviously a different story.
I have a few samba shares on my server that get some use (if you have any Windows PCs then Samba is the way to go), but when sharing between my server and this PC sshfs is unbeatable. Very simple, no additional ports to open up (since I always have ssh running anyway), secure (I use RSA keys instead of passwords), simple and seamless. I used to use Samba and/or NFS shares to copy/move data to/from my server but sshfs is so simple without any additional work while maintaining security.
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