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by dashezup 1814 days ago
Haven't use Windows for a while, on macOS I used to use NFS to access files on a LAN server but switched to WebDAV as well because it seems easier and cleaner to use WebDAV compare to SMB/NFS, since it does not require extra services or opened ports on server.

Nowadays I mainly use linux distro, the main use case of accessing files from LAN server is watching movies or TV series. I just create m3u/m3u8 playlist on server and play it through HTTP (not necessarily use WebDAV in this case). this way could avoid potential troubles I could get from mounting a remote directory.

  # LAN server
  ls -1 *.mp4 >playlist.m3u
  # computer, mpv with "save-position-on-quit"
  mpv http://raspberrypi.lan/path/to/playlist.m3u