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Comment by gonzalohm

15 hours ago

What's the best alternative for Google drive? I also went this route but Samba is a bit annoying sometimes

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drnick1  13 hours ago

What makes Samba annoying? I think it's perfect for its intended use (LAN).

If you need to share files externally, Nextcloud works very much like Google Drive and allows the creation of sharable links.

BloodyIron  12 hours ago

Nextcloud, Samba serving SMB isn't really equivalent.

  • yard2010  2 hours ago

    I don't get how Samba is not there yet. We already have everything in the OS, the UI, the mental model, the protocols, how come it's such a terrible experience that we need to re-invent the wheel in web 2.0.. Maybe we need a Jarred Sumner to fix it.

  • komali2  12 hours ago

    Nextcloud also has lots of interesting plugins. I recently found a viable Splitwise alternative I chucked on my instance.

danparsonson  14 hours ago

Syncthing is very nice.

  • gonzalohm  2 hours ago

    Is not the same though. It requires downloading the entire shared folder. That doesn't work when I have 100+GB of files and I want to share it with my phone

  • cromka  8 hours ago

    I have nothing but issues with it, mostly because the iOS/Android apps are notoriously bad at syncing the files timely and also because of ridiculous filename restrictions on Android.

bsmith  14 hours ago

If you dont need filesharing, you can just setup wireguard, setup a network drive on your phone's files app.l, and then when connected it'll feel like native file browsing.