FTP

Is running a FTP server the best way to transfer large files to close friends with other big ass stupid NAS setups full of, say, pirated movies?

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>SFTP
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>not tftp

huh, i do it using https... that way they dont even need to know anything about ftp, just clicking the link and their webbrowser will download it automatically

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Really?
>just clicking the link and their webbrowser will download it automatically
You can have FTP links too you know ftp://user:password@host/file

browsers have been dropping support for ftp links

Ah, news to me. But makes sense because FTP was sketchy protocol from the beginning.
And slow as fuck handshake to get the transfer going.

ssh (so sftp/scp) but use some PAM module for auth so you don't have to give them all system user accounts.

Who cares? FTP clients are standard in every POSIX environment.

yeah but what if they're windows normies

Windows file shares thru a VPN connection. but idk what kind of VPN setup would be appropriate for a P2P-style transfers.
Or a DirectConnect hub lol

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ftp should only be used on legacy devices that dont support anything else like PSP
your friends running windows 98s on their nas? if not then sftp is what you want
ftp is plain text and will be spoofed by isp
putty has support for even windows xp
not to mention i use sftp even on android with a plugin. so being on pozzed os doesnt prevent sftp

Why on fucking earth would you use FTP for that instead of just creating a private torrent with the host machine as the tracker?

then share the torrent file through http

Isn't rsync just made for this?

I think he means tracker as a plain tracker, not like a whole website. And since they are normies they can share their torrent files thru Snapchat or whatever.

FTP used to be a very easy option when browsers supported it. now you have to ask people to grab an FTP client.
if you take the FTP route, enable TLS for encrypted login and transfer. i would recommend that with larger files, you divide them into parts and have an SFV or MD5 list so users can easily recover data if it is corrupted in transit.

I was trying to poke at the fact that sharing a directory locally through http can be as easy as typing one or two words into a terminal.

bittorrent is the only real answer
private trackers were literally designed for this but you faggots only think that it only has to be an authoritarian dystopian shithole where you suck janny dick every 2 minutes to not get banned

shodan will find you.

I still use FTP even tho is insecure and not supored.
Works gud and installing a ftp client is ez asf