Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:

> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
>
>> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> vsftp: 	Very Secure FTP daemon
>>> Upstream URL: 	https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html
>>> (It seems that there is not a single FTP server on Guix.  Strange... Can anyone
>>> recommend anything better than vsftp for file sharing?  Not necessarily
>>> FTP.)
>>
>> There is SFTP, which is secure, and supported by GuixSD.  It's not FTP,
>> and it runs over SSH.
>
> My use-case is the following: share files with random people with
> zero-configuration on their end.  Because FTP is supported by most web
> browsers it is one of the most available options I think.
>
> Any other suggestion?  There is Samba, but I'm not sure I'd like to dive
> into that...

I often start a HTTP server with `guix environment` for quick and dirty
network sharing of the current directory:

$ guix environment -C -N --ad-hoc python -- python3 -m http.server

I suppose "wget" would be able to mass-download.