[Trisquel-users] Re : alternatives to samba

[lcerf]

About backups, if the synchronized systems are all online and you  
modify/remove by mistake a file, it will be quickly modified/removed in all  
other systems with no way to recover the file as it was, right?  If so, it is  
not a good idea to use Syncthing to backup... but backups were not Heather's  
problem anyway.  I just want to warn you about this issue if you really use  
Syncthing to backup.

I now understand your third point.  But we are talking about different  
things.  You are talking about transferring files from a remote terminal  
(notice that you can 'scp' from it if the local computer has an SSH server as  
well).  I was talking about the SSH file transfer protocol (SFTP) that allows  
to access the file hierarchy of a remote system.  Thanks to integration with  
file manager, you can get a bookmark that opens a folder on that remote  
system.  The files stay on that remote system (well, you can copy them  
locally if you want, e.g., with drag and drop).  Those files are read/written  
with the programs on the local system.  Like Samba but through SSH.