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Lanstash: an easy way to share files on your LAN (codeberg.org)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002 to c/opensource@programming.dev

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I ( @alpin@lemmy.ml ) started writing a small piece of software some time ago to easily host files on a local server and share them with any device equipped with a web browser or an HTTP client (curl, wget, etc.). I've been using it myself at home and I keep slowly working on it in my free time to add features and fix the problems that I find.

It's very lightweight and fast, and it doesn't require anything special to compile, just a Unix-like system, a C compiler, and a few standard utilities (sorry Windows users). It's compiled into a single binary and that can be configured at compile time or with a config file.

For now it can only be used to download files from the hosting server, but I'm working on uploading, renaming, and deleting files.

Hopefully it can be useful to other people. Any (constructive) feedback is welcome!

Link with source code and instructions: https://codeberg.org/alpin/lanstash

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My go-to is LocalSend for this, but sure, why not.

[–] exdor@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago

I think the localsend protocol is nice yes

The apps work nice too

But it is written in dart and flutter, which makes it pretty heavy and not native. The android app is 46MB wich doesnt sound much because android apps generally got more and more bloated... but for comparison iyox wormhole is only 14MB.

Syncthing-fork is bigger, basic-sync a bit smaller. But still, a small CLI could be under 1mb and run on way more devices