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Comment by searealist | Hacker News Reader

How is this not scp? (the string `scp` does not exist in the article)

Hah, these dismissals remind me of the comment on Dropbox's initial Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

We are turning this into a thing now, aren't we?

1. i can run this from my phone easily. using a terminal on a phone is a pain in the ass and increasingly more as android limits apps like termux.

2. tailscale handles key management. this is literally one of its big core competencies btw.

also when did every file copy thing become scp? like if it's not scp why would you expect them to mention it?

Tailscale handles key management for scp already (as it handles key management for ssh). So this is just a thing for phones?

> So this is just a thing for phones?

No. I'm not even sure why this is a question. The article has instructions on how to use this with macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Both for receiving and sending to each of them. Only two of those OSes are phone OSes.

It's Tailscale SSH, not Tailscale core. Some users don't want SSH key management (or even don't run sshd, especially on Windows) but just want file transfer.

You can already scp over tailscale without running sshd. I'm still not understanding what this provides over scp. Some kind of GUI? Works on phones? The marketing page does a poor job.

How do I scp files to or from my iPhone? Do I have to run some kind of terminal app? Approximately nobody wants to do that. That can't seriously be confusing to you?

While I could probably scp from my windows laptop, id have to do some setup. I don’t really use my laptop for dev stuff. On the other hand, it’s already in my Tailscale network. So I can also just right click a file, and select “send to my-cloud-server”

Same from my iPhone. I can easily send any file to or from any of my devices. It appears in the share menu on my iPhone.

Or just nfs on a tail scale VPN ...

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