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Please advise how to transfer P2P a 30 GB file (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by leobakameo@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have two computers with Windows 10. Preferably the simplest option, so that at the other end people with minimal IT competence can figure it out

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Syncthing, Resilio Sync, or one of those browser based p2p file sends e.g. https://file.pizza or similar.

If both p2p ends know how to use torrents then creating a simple torrent to share to the other peer would work fine. But that requires slightly more IT competence especially if someone needs to open a port forward (ideally you would make sure you have your own port forwarded so the other party doesn't have to worry about this).

If you're doing this more than once it might be worth setting up a simple server e.g. HFS is a nice open source/free HTTP file server, been a while since I used it but it still seems to be active https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

[–] leobakameo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

HFS - 20 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e678899d7ea9702184167b56655f91a69f8a0bdc9df65612762252c053c2cd7c/detection

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Interesting, though I suspect that is a false positive, it's happened before with that software

https://rejetto.com/forum/index.php?topic=9037.0

Most likely because it is a self-contained web server executable? That sort of software would seem suspicious and similar to other sorts of virus/malware.

Granted I have not used it in a while but I'd be surprised if it were true, their forums and github would be full of reports of malware.

https://github.com/rejetto/hfs

That aside you have plenty of other options to use if you prefer to use something else.

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