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What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a Samba mount at home (behind NAT, accessible via wireguard VPN), which works very well when accessing my home files when traveling (I travel a lot for work).

The only detail missing from this solution is sharing individual files with friends. I could give them access to my VPN, but that gives them access to everything, not just one thing I want to share. Also not all my friends are that tech savvy to manage connecting to a VPN.

What would be really great is to have a link-generator that punches a hole in the NAT to give them access to specific files. Are there any self-hosted solutions for that?

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[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use Filebrowser Quantum if you are happy opening up a port for it. It supports 2fa. Also requires Docker which isn't too difficult.

[–] pulverizedcoccyx@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I went looking for something better than nextcloud, and this one really fit the ticket.

[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I had Nextcloud running for several years (VM is the best way IMO, I would avoid the Docker AIO). However I found Filebrowser and it rocks as a file share service. Filebrowser Quantum is a fork with more feature as the original no longer has a maintainer. The most I've had someone upload to it was 300GB.

[–] HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Does anyone use Blaze? ( https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze )

I always thought it looked promising, even supporting peer-peer transfer, so in theory if you are transferring to multiple destinations multiple folks would seed.

Edit: ah, ni commits for the last 2 years

[–] radieschen@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Onion share might be an option.

[–] philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I’ve been looking for something like this as well. Hopefully someone has a solution.

[–] freeearth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you might configure Syncthing in that way

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[–] paf@jlai.lu 1 points 3 days ago

I can't remember any name but search for f2f (friend to friend) p2p. Basically a private way to share files over p2p to limited people you have accepted without any use of tracker like P2P use

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