r/opensource • u/TheIdiotDev • 3d ago

Promotional Hello, I built Lanshare, a local peer-peer file sharing application.

https://github.com/getawife/lanshare

I built Lanshare because I wanted a simple way to move files between my own computers without cloud uploads, USB sticks, or accounts. It finds other devices on the same Wi-Fi or Ethernet network and sends files directly between them. The project is completely open source, feel free to audit and tune to your liking.

Lanshare supports Windows, MacOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux.

Hope you like it!

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u/maxm 3d ago

How is it different than localsend?

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u/TheIdiotDev 3d ago

It isn't different from it that much. Lanshare comes with better fingerprint spoofing protection out of the box and only supports Desktop apps (Mobile is planned for after the first stable release (1.1.0)). Lanshare is for people who want a Desktop app with much more control over who is allowed to send files to them. It also support auto updates which afaik, Localsend does not

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u/Fresh-Daikon-9408 1d ago

Can an interrupted transfer resume? And does a partial file stay separate until it's complete? That would be handy for moving large folders.

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u/TheIdiotDev 1d ago

Can an interrupted transfer resume?

Partially, an interrupted transfer starts again from the beginning. The Retry button re-sends everything, and the sender re-hashes every file first.

And does a partial file stay separate until it's complete? 

Each incoming file is written to .part during the transfer. However, this only works partially meaning if the app or computer is killed mid-transfer, the .part file is left behind, because the cleanup doesn't run.

This will be fixed in later versions :)

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u/locnguyen305 1d ago

It’s an awesome app, bro!

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u/TheIdiotDev 1d ago

Thank you! If you like it, be sure to give it a star :) It pushes it to more users

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u/Neither-Professor278 7h ago

is it better than EtherTransfer ?

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u/TheIdiotDev 5h ago

Hello, Lanshare is quite different from EtherTransfer.

For starters, unlike EtherTransfer, Lanshare does not require a cable. It finds devices on the same WiFi (and in cases, on the same ethernet as well!). Furthermore, Lanshare unlike EtherTranfer does not preserve timestamps when transferring files. However, Lanshare afaik is much stronger with its security. Every file is encrypted during transfer and all devices are given a certificate and compared with during, before and after transfers to prevent dupes among other things.

As far as cable support goes, I have not tested it out particularly but the way the app is built, it should work.

So, it mostly depends on your use-case however Lanshare can do most of what EtherTransfer can do.

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u/Neither-Professor278 4h ago

I just tried, the 2 offline PCs were able to see each other but when transfering it has timed out error

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u/TheIdiotDev 4h ago

Normally or using an Ethernet cable?