Connect Manjaro & Windows 11 via Ethernet for File Sharing

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Syncthing is extremely easy to setup and use.

Another dead easy method - if both are connected to the same wireless network

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Python http.server

If you only occasionally need to serve files - you can do so using the default Python installation.

Copy the files to you want to share to ~/Public then open a terminal in the folder and run two commands.

The first displays your IP address using an utility script. Example

~/Public $ check-network
192.168.1.20

The second run the http service exposing the content of your ~/Public folder

~/Public $ python -m http.server -d ~/Public  8080
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 (http://0.0.0.0:8080/) ...

Then share the IP and port. The person(s) can fetch the file(s) using their browser and navigating to - the slash at the end is important (otherwise the browser runs a search using the configured search engine)

http://$IPADDRESS:8080/

When you are finished sharing, close the terminal or press Ctrlc to stop sharing.

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