Best will be different for different people, but I find the sort of ad-hoc networking you want to do is best done with ssh and fuse. It's not just for file transfers either. You can run applications remotely and use the remote system as a proxy server. Rsync works well over ssh, and of course just using it to log in as a terminal is handy too. It can be as secure as you want it to be, and can even do port forwarding. Once you know how to use ssh, operating systems which don't have it available natively just seem inadequate.
For your intended use, make sure ssh-server is installed on the system you want to connect to and fuse and sshfs are installed locally, then use sshfs to connect to that server and mount the drive somewhere in your local file system. I would use something like:
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(in-ep-toc?-ra-cy) ? a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.
sample nfs configuration: install nfs on client and server
I think the current packages are nfs-kernel-server and nfs-common
on SERVER edit/create /etc/exports
as e.g to make /var globally and root mountable remotely
/var *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
run exportfs -a to install changes.
on client edit /etc/hosts to give a name to the ip address of the server pi
e.g..
192.168.0.100 pi
mkdir /home/other-pi
edit /etc/fstab and add a line like
pi:/var/ /home/other-pi nfs defaults 0 0
and run mount -a
You have just added a remote machine to your filesystem!
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Ineptocracy
(in-ep-toc?-ra-cy) ? a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.
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Ineptocracy
(in-ep-toc?-ra-cy) ? a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.
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