Expose Fileserver (SMB) over WEB / HTTP(S) Interface

Question

I have a Windows Fileserver (SMB), for internal storage. I'm looking for a way to add a Web-interface to expose the fileserver over HTTPS.

The requirements are:

Accessible over HTTPS in a standard browser as a Web application.
The Web application shall be able to display and modify the content of a SMB-share.
Media playback (video and audio) would be great. But download and relying on the browser are ok.
Linux or Windows.
Open Source

If it is a bad idea to have this setup, please let me know. I can be okay with moving from the Windows file-server SMB platform to another Linux platform.

IIS for R/O access is an overkill and resource hog, but it gets the job done! — RiGiD5, Nov 12 '19 at 12:20
It would be amazing to finally have a solution for this problem that includes LDAP support and actually sets the file permissions based on that. Nextcloud etc. only work when the files are owned by www-data. — Tobias Timpe, Nov 12 '19 at 13:01
User management can be different from the users on the file-server. I can go with web-ui uses one user-identity on file-server. It's for home-purpose currently. — Sam, Nov 12 '19 at 13:31
Web-based HTML5 player for video would also be a good feature. — Sam, Nov 12 '19 at 16:01

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '19 at 12:16

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NextCloud has WebDAV functionality / integration and can replicate data between off-site <-> on-premises in the way you want. This is no open source / free software, but you might want to give it a try.

https://nextcloud.com/files/

P.S. I have nothing to do with this company, just in case :)

answered Nov 12 '19 at 12:16

BaronSamedi1958

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Maybe not my choice. Thanks anyway! – Sam Nov 12 '19 at 16:16

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '19 at 12:57

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Pydio has Web UX for CIFS/SMB shares: https://pydio.com

answered Nov 12 '19 at 12:57

batistuta09

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I have seen Pydio specification, but I have not give it a try. Is it worth a try? Are you using it? – Sam Nov 12 '19 at 13:29
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I am personally not - we use Syncplicity for content sharing, but our company evaluated Pydio for some customers – batistuta09 Nov 12 '19 at 13:40

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 12 '19 at 11:54

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I guess OwnCloud might be a bit overkill for your needs, but still going to mention it. :)

answered Nov 12 '19 at 11:54

Janne Pikkarainen

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I have been looking in this direction also. Currently I use Seafile as a sync-server, but its currently not connected to the file-server-files. – Sam Nov 12 '19 at 13:28

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 12 '19 at 20:45

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SMB with encryption directly over the WAN or Internet. Mount the shares with native OS tools.

Microsoft considers Internet transport acceptable for modern SMB.

answered Nov 12 '19 at 20:45

John Mahowald

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SMB is chatty though, and the round-trip latency really kills performance. – Jonathon Reinhart May 31 '21 at 02:56

Expose Fileserver (SMB) over WEB / HTTP(S) Interface

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