How do you browse files on a remote machine? Terminal? Web? Explorer??

@BloodBlight

2 жыл бұрын

I just mount it as if it was local using sshfs.

@kokizzu

2 жыл бұрын

where's the link XD the name is not that "googleable" XD

@whiskeylinux

2 жыл бұрын

I tend to use Filezilla and WinSCP

@nevoyu

2 жыл бұрын

Terminal because I'm too lazy to setup sshfs and I think tools like the one shown in the video are insecure.

@sp3023

2 жыл бұрын

I'm using FileRun. It has many features but is also using much more resources. It is available as a container for self hosting too.

This is absolutely brilliant. Filebrowser, Docker, and your presentation. I followed step by step and was able to make it work. And I've never done this before. Thank you for this incredible video!

@TechnoTim

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

Discovered this yesterday and this morning discover your video. Great video ! Thank you for your help.

Now this is a tool that I'll install in every system I need to manage. This with proper firewall or VPN access and you have a nice interface to manage a VPS

Sounds like a cool thing to have on a VPS to share files with people to not have to use typical cloud services or go overkill with a full Nextcloud installation

@Breeegz

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking about NextCloud, but this seems to fit my actual needs much better,

@Nikhil-Tomar

Жыл бұрын

I tried Nextcloud Very Slow, Disappointing actually

Lovely man! Absolutely lovely! Keep it up bro. NICE WORK!!!!

I've been using this for a while now. It's awesome! Great video btw!!!

I was all ready to install nextcloud only to browse online in needful time. This comes as plugin in OMV but that didn't worked form. This instatlion is clean simple and to the point. This one working well. Best video / tutorial 🙂

Thank you so much, this was a great guide. I was able to install it successfully.

Thanks!!! with your video I can start my own fileBrowser!

Some could mount network share location from Synology NAS, then expose this file manager to the web to reach their files over the internet. I think safer than exposing whole NAS device so that hackers chase it up with known security vulnerabilities. Thanks for sharing. Great presentation and awesome little container.

That is cool, started using it too from now 😃 Previously used only synology(and few xpenology) for public files sharing from my network

Thanks, installed and checking now.

Webmin brings back memories. I think the first version was written in Perl 4 IIRC.

I was looking for a solution like this to share out team doc. Great vídeo thank you @techno tim!

Nice find man, will put it to good use. A+

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Go for it!

Thank you very much for your learning video. It has been very useful.

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This was super helpful, thanks! Only feature missing, is when I share a folder link, it would be nice if the client could upload into that folder without having to create an account.

I have noticed that you edit config files in VS code and then paste it into terminal You can install remote ssh just like remote wsl it can connect to the server from ssh and open a vs code instance in your machine and then you can open a remote directory on your machine on vs code This saved me from alot of hassle while creating new services using docker compose

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

so awesome thanks for sharing

Got to this a bit late. Thanks so much for posting this video it answered a lot of my questions! I wish it had 2FA though. I'm just not sure about how secure this is if someone has the link to my filebrowser... ? Great video, thanks again and looking forward to all your future videos!

This tutorial helped me a lot! And it's the only one that was clear enough to make it work. I'm very curious how can I change the path if want more control up until let's say the root folder. Re-deploying the stack will reinstall/replace everything?

nice video bro, there is a cool trick you can do with filebrowser, if you create an empty directory as user scope and populate it with systeylinks (symbolic likns in linux) you will have a virtual directory and that will be very handy if you want to grand someone access to your server without wasting storage space. i was also experimenting with droppy but its way behind.

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Great tip!

This is great! I lern to use it a bit before your tutorial but I´d wish to watch it in the past It wolud saves me a lot of time. Thank you!! Have you try the branding options?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have not yet!

uid / gid explanation -> thank you

This is awesome! Is possible to visualize video files and hear audio files?

Great to see a new Video. I will give this a try for mounting multiple docker volumes under /srv for easy access to docker volumes

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for the video. A couple of questions... 1) Is it possible to make and use thumbnails for videos? 2) Is it possible to edit the .filebrowser.json file to fine tune settings?

Were you running Sever Code? Looks like your Visual Code was running on a remote machine. I use Server Code when I need to write long scripts on a remote machine without X. I really like the multi tab ability. I was hoping you would show something like that with file-browser.

❤️ These videos Tim

Thanks Tim for such a nice video...i do have a doubt...can this support multiple directory for a single user in scope...i was unable to find anything on the document

Amazing video, thank you! only thing I think I'm missing is making hardlinks of files through this, other than that, I love it.

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Great tip!

Really interesting. Does this hold user logs such as the date/time and ip of who uploaded/downloaded files?

I wish I watched your video 10 years ago. Why? It pushed me to write own file browser. How big is it? 840,127 so still one 1.4M disk is enough. Do I need a Docker or other container? Yes, but it should be a servlet container, so generally 500K container is enough. So your video is a highly valuable for me since I can confirm that I provided enough features in the app. And yes, it runs on Mac and Raspberry Pi.

"where have you been for 20 years" lol 18:40

Holy cow this is just what i needed! How to change the base url so that it be used behind a reverse proxy?

It's only missing 2FA option. And maybe testing it behind a reverse proxy. Great self host find

Thanks for this great video . Clear, concise and always to the point. Love your other videos too..and have learned a lot. If you share a file on FileBrowser externally with or without a password and use Authelia for 2FA...will that prevent access to the shared file?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It will since Authelia becomes your auth proxy!

looks like essential app for TrueNAS Scale, as Synology user I would never expect NAS system not to have native File management within its web UI

I use syncthing and file browser as a combo. File browser is accessible outside my network and is running through a reverse proxy. Its very handy to have.

@jim_fear_

Жыл бұрын

do You use any 2FA? or just believe in user:pass pair?

@koningvoorschot4200

10 ай бұрын

Are you able to upload anything from outside network? In my case I can't unless it's local (within network)

Would it be possible to use File Browser as a webfront to view files on SharePoint or OneDrive? Or some other way of hosting File Browser not via Docker? i.e. In an enterprise environment where you can't use docker?

How well does this handle symlinks? For instance, I have 4 folders in my root directory, different LVM Mounts, can I symlink them to a single folder that FileBrowser can access? I'd rather not share out my entire root directory.

Does it support single sign on (SSO) especially with Azure AD?

Yay, I can even use this on my "serverized" Lenovo laptop with a 32GB soldered-on unextendable SSD because it's so small!

Is there a maximum amount of files or storage space I can have saved within that link?

Thx for another great video ✌️ Will have a play with next week.

Does it have file indexing? Im looking for a combination of this and diskover

Wow nice, I am looking for this simple file browser for gluster, thanks

Solid stuff

This would be good to run on a NAS server for sure

Great Video. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to set this up with root access to my files. I just keep getting 'exec /filebrowser: operation not permitted' in the logs. Even with user: 1000:1000. My docker was installed with snap and I read somewhere that could be causing the problem. But I don't want to have to reinstall docker and lose all my current containers.

Thank you Tim! After spending a week trying (and failing) to get Samba running on k8s to expose a RWX volume, I finally stumbled over this tool. I guess it should be easy to secure it with authelia in front of it or is there a better way?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I’d use

does it not write the files to the system directory thats specified? i'm ssh'd into the machine the server is running on and uploaded a file in my home directory and nothing shows on the machine.

can you mount it or map it as a network drive?

hello, in my case when I upload any file or do anyaction the web not refresh and I must click on reload icon, so how can I solve this situation? thanks

Hi there thanks for sharing i was asking fot this long time ago i wish i has same functionality that sinology one that allow me to lease things copy whilo turne off my compute do you know something likle that?

Hey man, love your videos. Hey quick question: What VScode Plugin do you use for the yml indent color coding there? Minute 3:56. Thanks in advanced.

@chadmarkley

2 жыл бұрын

Would love to know the answer to this as well!

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Indent Rainbow!

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

@@chadmarkley Indent Rainbow!

@jmlc11

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechnoTim thank you!

What do you recommend: creating docker instances for every server or mounting points where file browser is running?

@jesmasco

2 жыл бұрын

Same question, I think should be only one instance running. Because you can't install it on every server, and would be super tedious to have a file manager for each machine running on different ports.

How would you mount new directory to this container? Like for example, expose a ZFS pool that was created?

@TechnoTim

Жыл бұрын

The same way you mount any folder. Just map it in docker to the filesystem!

Hello, thank you very much for the tutorial. Do you know how to make it not ask me for authentication and access directly to the directories. aware of the vulnerability but what I need is to make users access from a local network

I use mc (Midnight Commander) which has a two plane directory layout and has a smaller foorprint than Filebrowser.

thx a lot for this video, it's really great tool. just one question though, you know sending username/password using http is quite scary, did you try to run filebrowser with ssl certificate?

@MR_GPU

2 жыл бұрын

He ran it locally so anyone snooping would have to be on your network. If doing it publicly, use a reverse proxy with correctly configured SSL.

I run this compose file on Windows. I got the error "/database.db is a directory". After removing this line, the container worked well.

would be cool to see a pwd now and then. i am not sure what /home/serveradmin is exactly. so you share your complete home directory to filebrowser? thats one of the reasons, i don't like starship so much. you never see the whole path, where you actually in right now. I can only assume, that you are in /home/serveradmin/filebrowser. but thanks for the video, it's great content. you got a new follower.

Would anyone know how to change the default listening port on the Windows filebrowser.exe install? Having issues with port 8080.

Does this support single sign on using Authelia ?

I would like to share a folder that others can also upload to as well as download ? Doesn't to seem to be possible or am I missing something ?

@TechnoTim

Жыл бұрын

Should be possible

Sounds like I good thing to run on Kubernetes, might try it

My nas is running xponology and this piece of software looks like it is the last piece of the puzzle so I can move to unraid or a Linux distro with snapraid.. specially the share feature is just what I need

how to change file permission and owner such as "chmod" and "chown" command?

Great !!

hi Techno Tim it would be grate if you show 2fa integration for the filebrowser

Great Video. How do you compare the Filebrowser with the NextCloud though?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

less features, but lighter weight.

@mmuneebahmed

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechnoTim Do you know any iOS app for the filebrowser just like we do have for the nextcloud?

could you help with windows? a lot of things in the tutorial aren't working for me

So let's take a break from the graduate classes to revisit 2nd grade. Wonderful. I love teachers.

can it work with files already indexed in windows 11?I have more than 2 million files indexed. thanks in advance

I think you're cool, thanks for the content!

@TechnoTim

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Techno Tim have you tried harvester yet?

If it would've also support LDAP at least , it would've been perfect

Hi, thanks you for this video.I want to ask your something. Please When we use portainer and create a stacks, to which we add fillebrowser. Sometimes we don't have access to the server. Do you have an explanation?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I have not experiences this myself, it always seems to work. I did not try this with a Portainer stack but it should work.

@hamadoualidavid-malick1552

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechnoTim Thanks, ok but last question, do you know how can i custom it( change name, color?)

looks like if you use version "3" non-root user cannot longer use port: 80, I am running Filebrowser in my Synology NAS, would this be consider safe? just wondering.

@antonio638

2 жыл бұрын

I had to set user: 0:0 otherwise I kept getting "tcp 80 bind: permission denied"

Hi, I like your video, very simple to follow. Question: How do you run the docker container with a non-root user? Only works for me with root user. --- version: '3' services: file-browser: image: filebrowser/filebrowser container_name: file-browser user: 0:0 ports: - 8081:80 volumes: - /var/nfs_share:/srv - /opt/filebrowser/filebrowser.db:/database.db restart: unless-stopped security_opt: - no-new-privileges:true

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

be sure you have the correct ID set that can access those shares!

New account, share files with a permissions, password protection 👌🏽😎

if i set this up with authelia in front of it, is it possible to create shares without the recipient having to log in?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

I think you can exclude paths with authelia!

Tried to use this in conjunction with jdownloader but filebrowser doesn't see the comtents of tge folder downloaded by jdownloader, any help?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I haven't used jdownloader

This is pretty awesome, but my abysmal upload speed (6mpbs vs 225 mbps download) means I can't really use something like this. :(

GODLIKE!

If it had office file preview and editing i'd be in

What about 2FA? What about mobile app? Could be a nice replacement of nextcloud but I dunno how it will work with TB of data and search.

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

put 2fa in front of it with authelia

Vintage memes, nice.

Thanks! might be specific to my setup but I had to change the permissions on the filebrowser.db. I was lazy and just did chmod 777

how i hide the file system that show up.. it's really disturbing!

ive been i using it for a year, its missing bookmarks. i would use so much more if it had that feature

Can it be used on a laptop with a windows 10 host and then browse files on a linux guest in a virtualbox machine ?

@TechnoTim

2 жыл бұрын

Sure can!

is this better than minio?

Why not use a terminal file manager line ranger or lf

22:00 - Bro....i had to rewatch that part. I legit thought you blew us a kiss bro. But it wasn't. I don't got nothing against blowing kisses. You just don't got a face that says I blow kisses...you know? Just got me off guard a lil when I thought you streamed us a kiss is all 😅

I'm finding "File Browser" interesting. But how do you keep it up to date? Is there a mailing list you have to subscribe to? Do you re-download the container periodically?

Does file browser have mobile apps?

Almost had to break my back to set this up since Freecommander tried to die