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router knows when they receive data from the website, its for you. But if someone tries sending data out of the blue to your router, it will not know who to give it to at home. Routers have a "port forwarding" table in their configuration web ui, so they know to send data from anybody on a specific port to a specific home computer. Network services run on different ports. SSH is on 22, SMB is on 445. So to share ssh on your computer you would go in your router config and type 🧵>

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something like
Port: 22
LAN IP: 10.0.0.15
In the port forwarding config, and data sent to the port 22 on the router would be sent to the home computer on IP 10.0.0.15
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@boblaw0 Ok thanks for info.

Is there also any way to do it without fiddling with router - maybe a direct app and preferably one that isn't invasive and doesn't need to store data ?

So app would help mostly just access each other's disk or directory, and not actually needs storage elsewhere.

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