Folder sharing between Linux phone, SBC and desktop PC?

Last Updated on January 11, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

It works with the Pinephone as described here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16379&highlight=folder

The easiest way for folder sharing we found is in Ubuntu. With newer versions it would for instance be possible from a Pi running Ubuntu to share a folder to a desktop PC running ubuntu:

or between a Windows 11 PC and Ubuntu:

These are the easiest ways for folder sharing we know. But if we use a device based on a Raspberry Pi we would preferentially choose Raspberry Pi OS instead of Ubuntu because of it’s long history of development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS

The easiest way we found to solve this problem for us personally is not to use folder sharing but to use NextCloudPi instead.