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Samba shares, if on a LAN?
Better still, get rid of the Windoze servers! ;p
WebDAV?
I am not on a LAN. I am using the drives to store my Plex media.
Why only on a LAN, I have very few problems accessing Samba shares over the WAN even on high latency broadband connections.
Rclone?
As above rclone or I have a pi4 set up as 2 drives nas that allso shares my remote sshfs mounts over samba
certainly not the easiest, but I'd do split tunnel VPN + NFS
Security aspects of samba shares over WAN? Dunno, haven't looked into it and didn't want to recommend without better knowledge. I do use rsync over WebDAV (https) though and no Windoze servers.
Nfs
...shared out directly on the public interface there is no security, same goes for NFS, and if you wanted to store/access sensitive files you'd have to use a VPN layer as well - OpenVPN,Tinc,Wireguard there's a lot to choose from working both Windows and Linux.
But for this usage scenario, sharing media files, I probably wouldn't bother with the encryption overhead. Use read only shares, firewall off access to port 445 (Samba) on the Linux boxes to stop the unwanted actually having direct access, and then your only security concern is those able to tap your network connection being able to watch what you're watching, again VPN if that's actually a worry.
The advantage of Samba/NFS over rsync/rclone would seem to be direct random seek access to files, of particular use in streaming.
@cochon you're taking me too literal; I didn't mean to say use rsync, just the WebDAV portion. I was merely pointing out my use case and Nextcloud (which I also use) is actually geared up for file sharing etc.
Anyway, why do those who use Plex seem to unilaterally broadcast packets to the LAN? Grr. (rhetorical.) Ban 'em, if they can't configure properly.