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So far I am most happy with using the curious SSHFS, which allows you to mount directories across networks as an extension to the SSH protocol. It needs no extra components on server side, and I have found it performant and stable. On client side it needs some extra components, depending on your operating system. Unfortunately, on macOS, this requires installing the closed source macFUSE, it used to be open source, and recent decisions to become closed source have attracted much discussion. This license change has also caused issues for projects that used to bundle macFUSE, including installing it with Homebrew.
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Samba
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I wanted a solution that was relatively easy to access on a local network and elsewhere. Preferably the same solution used the same way in both cases. This requirement ruled out Samba shares, as it's not designed for sharing across the internet. I looked at NFS, but encountered speed and reliability issues, and recent macOS support is poor with documented workaround to enable version 4 seemingly not working anymore.
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WorkOS
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I wanted to share two other folder and file locations across my internal network as well as the internet. The first is a large archive of miscellaneous data from across my years of computer use, and a couple of large Calibre libraries that contain things like RPG books and comics, i.e., several GBs in size each.
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