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?
I use ownclowd
Try nextcloud. It can generate links to files like this.
100% this. I have one running in a lxc, and I expose it to the world through a CloudFlare tunnel so I needn’t worry about dyndns or people probing my public IP.
https://file.pizza/ just because the pizza toppings URLs are fun and nasty
not self-hosted
Another vote for Syncthing. Might be a little too complicated for some though
I use Pingvin. You upload a file to it and it generates a link. Has expiration on the link.
You can allow anonymous uploads or not, give friends logins etc.
I have it locked down to just me with a login and I use it to let others download the files.
I tried it but Copyparty worked better, it has a massive community suddenly and tons of cool features that mostly stay out of the way unless you enable them
There are a few implementations of wormhole that might work.
If you’re ok with exposing a server to the internet, I’ve had good luck with sharry. https://eikek.github.io/sharry/
I’ve also had good luck running a Nextcloud instance to share with friends and family. But that is probably overkill here.
I’ve been looking for something like this as well. Hopefully someone has a solution.
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.
