Simple file server that works for MS Windows users as well - ideas?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:37:52 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2020, 16:34 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 05:14:57PM +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2020, 15:51 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
> > > > I often seem to need to 'send' files to people, sometimes attaching to
> > > > an E-Mail works but this very often hits file size limitations.
> > > > 
> > > > Currently I'm trying to send an audio file to someone in Australia who
> > > > doesn't seem all that computer aware, so what choices do I have?
> > > > 
> > > > I have a Linux server out on the public internet where I can put the
> > > > file, what sort of thing can I run there to make it easy for them to
> > > > download?  I suppose I could set up an FTP server but are there any
> > > > easier ways?
> > > 
> > > You could use a Sharehoster, such as 
> > > http://www.mediafire.com/
> > >  .
> > > 
> > > Or, if you install SSH, you get an sftp server. It's secure and easy 
> > > to set up. I don't know how easy it is under Windows to access remote
> > > files with sftp, though.
> > > 
> > 
> > That's exactly the issue, I need to provide something that a computer
> > naive MS Windows user can download.
> 
> It *might* be easy. Linux file managers such as Nautilus or Konqueror have 
> sftp support built in. Maybe it's the same with Windows. I can't tell, I 
> run Linux exclusively.

MS-Windows has no "native" support for SSH -- none of stock software for 
MS-Windows implements any part of SSH.

About the only option the OP really has is to install Apache on his Linux 
server (if it is not already installed) and upload his files to  his Linux 
server and make them accessable by Apache and pass on the HTTP url 
(http://the.OPs.server.domain/file.mp3) to his correspondent.

Alternitively, getting a cloud disk (eg Google Drive or something like that), 
would be another option.

> 
> Cheers
> Volker
> 

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