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I've been looking into a private IPFS network as a way to share photos. It doesn't seem ready for that. Is there something out there that allows clients to update a mounted drive and keep in sync? Something that is transparent enough that ordinary users aren't intimidated to use it?

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You can do that with peergos [1]- mount a peergos folder locally using FUSE. Or login to the web interface and share easily and privately.

[1] https://github.com/peergos/peergos

I think https://fission.codes/ecosystem/wnfs/ might do what you want (though I don't know about viewing photos in browser etc). Alternatively, IPFS supports unixFS and a mutable filesystem through the desktop client if you are happy to host them on your own machine (it acts like a unix dir)

edit: ah sorry, I see you actually asked for a private network. You could possibly look into https://ipfscluster.io/, though it might be a little heavyweight for what you're looking for

There's also Perkeep [1], though it seems like development has slowed down on it in recent years.

[1]: https://perkeep.org/

Maybe Syncthing would work for you? [1]

[1] https://syncthing.net/

Syncthing with "copycat" as a web UI and Samba access is what I give to my users. People who onboard to syncthing like it but usually need help on initial setup.

I'm building something that solves this problem. I'd love to hear more about your use case, is it something you'd like to discuss or join a beta down the line?

If so, reach out at marc@ at my username .net

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