Sure. I have a little home server running Linux and 2 or 3 machines that access files shared by this server. I use Plasma on my desktop machines and I rely a lot on tags (just to clarify, Plasma uses xattrs - more specifically user.xdg.tags) to tag files. On the server I already have a couple of scripts that automatically insert some predefined tags on files.

Thing is when I try to copy and/or move files between server and desktop, depending on the protocol I used to mount the shared, I loose this information.

People suggested rsync, and it would be an excellent option if what I wanted was to keep both sides synchronized or something like that. In fact what I need is just a solution that allow me to mount a server share content and allow me to transfer files from it preserving their extended attributes, preferentially using a file manager (I use basically Dolphin or ranger).

No need to keep then synced.

Hey, thanks for taking the time to reply.

Yep, when I tried using Samba I had these catia:mappings configuration in my smb.conf. Thing is it slightly changes things (two that I specifically remember are ¿ and ¡ ), sometimes doesn’t recognizes filenames (don’t remember exactly which chars), etc.

I tried to setup Samba, NFS and sshfs. Took a couple of days to understand a little better each one and, by trial and error, have an idea of their perks. I do appreciate your suggestion but I don’t think Samba is what I’m looking for.

I’ll take a closer look into rsync possibilities and see if it applies to my situation. I appreciate your input.

I appreciate your help, but notice that the article just tell some basics of xattrs usage (I already know how to use it), but has no reference of file transfering files, which is what I need.

Thanks for the suggestion. In fact I tried rsync and it works. But is it possible to integrate in my current workflow? Maybe copying/moving files using a file manager?

I’m asking because with the 3 options I mentioned I may, for example, create mount points in fstab and from this there on everything would be transparent to the user. Would it be possible using rsync?

Cantata is an excellent graphical frontend to mpd.

And another Cantata fellow fan posted a fork of the the original project that apparently has been maintained.

Hey, that’s great news!

And to think I’ve been searching so much about Cantata these last few days and didn’t find this github project… although it seems to be the fork of a fork, isn’t it?

I do appreciate your input.

I didn’t know this option. Will certainly give it a look.

I second that.

With the additional advantage that rclone has modules like crypt and join, which allows you to keep your data encrypted no matter which cloud you use, gaining more cloud space by joining clouds, etc.

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll certainly git it a try.