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pprotasyesterday at 1:21 PM1 replyview on HN

iOS has native support for SMB in the Files app

Turning on SMB is usually just a click of a button, even macOS supports it

Any user technical enough to be able to set up an S3 bucket, Syncthing, Nextcloud or this "Locker" tool from OP can also set up an SMB share

I was responding to the above thread, where sharing files on an offline network is being discussed. Backups were not mentioned as a requirement.


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whartungyesterday at 2:15 PM

Yea, boy, you’d like to think.

But sharing a folder on my Mac with my wife’s MacBook has been a Google diving, arcane command line headache.

I would have thought sharing the folder, and marking ‘everyone’ for all the read/write modes would be enough. But, no.

I guess with APFS it’s a lot more fiddly. It’s not intuitive, and not in the info panel.