An Easy DIY File Server with copyparty and Tailscale

YouTube served me this video about copyparty, a supposedly easy to deploy file server.

It really was.

All I have to do is run start-copyparty.bat from my Desktop folder, which has this code:

@echo off
cd /d M:\
START "Copyparty Server" /B "c:\program files\python312\pythonw.exe" "M:\copyparty-sfx.py" -c "M:\settings.conf" -lo "M:\copyparty-errors.log":w > nul 2>&1

Or, from anywhere else, I made a Task Scheduler Event that I can also call on demand:

schtasks /run /tn "Start Copyparty Server"

And to verify, I can run tasklist | findstr /i "pythonw.exe" and it should look like this:

matth@MATTHEW M:\>tasklist | findstr /i "pythonw.exe"
pythonw.exe                   2576 Console                    1     63,480 K

Tailscale is also a really nice piece of software. It basically lets you create a LAN for your devices across the internet and makes them accessible.