Which network file system do you use?

I’ve been using sshfs for years to share files between various Linux systems and a between a Linux fileserver and a MAC – it has worked ok – definitely not perfect, but easy to set up. Just re-installed my macbook today (kids have been using it over the past years and disk is full, so easiest to just start over). Looking into the sshfs stuff for MAC – does not seem very well supported. So interested what others use.

One of the challenges with a fileserver is managing users, groups, permissions, etc.

I’ve also uses SAMBA in the past …

maybe fuse is something you can explore

https://osxfuse.github.io/

thanks @khem – that is what I ended up using.

Then I have a script with the following for mounting a directory on my Linux system:

sshfs -o allow_other -o defer_permissions <server>:/home/fileserver fileserver

Works well enough …

I currently use Samba, primarily because it’s really easy to setup and we have a few Windows PCs in the house.

For file synchronization, I’ve heavily used https://syncthing.net, and it has worked very well. Syncthing is a Go program that runs on Linux, Windows, Android, etc. This is how I sync my phone’s photos with our home rPi file server.

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I really need to try syncthing – would replace most of my use of dropbox for one …