Setting up a server to share my external hard drive ?

Hello,
I recently bought a Seagate Dockstar (a kind or ARM computer) in order to share my documents located on my external hard drive with my Arch laptop, and my iMac.
I would like to have read & write access to my external hdd from both my laptop and my Mac, and to be able to mount it as a network volume under my laptop and my Mac.
I heard that it may be possible, but apparently there are a lot of ways to do it. Samba, NFS, FTP, SSH, SSHFS, Sparkleshare, Syncany...
For the purpose I described above, could someone recommend me a solution which would be more convenient than the others ? What about simplicity ?
Thank you all !

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