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.

Solution 1

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 :)

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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

Microsoft considers Internet transport acceptable for modern SMB.

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Comments

[davidgo]

WebDAV?.........

[Chopper3]

IIS?...........

[Sam]

I updated the post. IIS may be a good read-only choice.

[RiGiD5]

IIS for R/O access is an overkill and resource hog, but it gets the job done!

[Tobias Timpe]

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.

[Sam]

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]

Web-based HTML5 player for video would also be a good feature.

[Sam]

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]

I have seen Pydio specification, but I have not give it a try. Is it worth a try? Are you using it?

[batistuta09]

I am personally not - we use Syncplicity for content sharing, but our company evaluated Pydio for some customers

[Sam]

Maybe not my choice. Thanks anyway!

[Jonathon Reinhart]

SMB is chatty though, and the round-trip latency really kills performance.