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FileBrowser is an option. I find it a bit limited so I decided to try the nextExplorer. It looks more promising. GitHub - vikramsoni2/nextExplorer: Web based File Explorer

With the more recent releases of Unraid you can no longer create "homes" share. It needs to be called something else, "users" for example. You can add the smb-extra.conf block directly through he UI (Settings -> SMB Extras -> Samba extra configuration). [home] comment = Home path = /mnt/user/users/%U browsable = yes invalid users = guest writable = yes read list = "%U" write list = "%U" valid users = "%U" If you only have few users, just create the user directories manually. You can skip the shell script part. Another option would be use a web based file manager. Just mount /mnt/user/users/ as root folder and have it create the user directories on first login. You still have to sync the user credentials manually, but it's a way to replicate what most NAS platform deliver as standard functionality.

I know, but at the very least the share access and some basic web based file manager should share same user accounts.

It's really annoying the length you have to go through to be able to use the same user account across the services. That should be something available OOTB. Something Synology has been doing since forever. If you already need to have user accounts for shares access, make it work across all available services. I wouldn't even mind if the web file manager and the FTP are exposed as separate applications/containers. Just make them use the same user accounts as for file shares.

It's time to integrate a decent file manager, something like nextExplorer. It would be nice to have a ready to use solution without having to install third party docker container for such a basic functionality. There should be also be an easy way to use the same user account for share access as well as the web based file manager and possibly the built-in FTP Server.

There is an issue with the official Filebrowser container. It expects the database to be in /database folder, but the container is configured with /db as path to the database. It starts right after the installation with generated password. If you restart it, it would generate a new admin password which you can see in the log. This is because the database file is never created. It attempts to create it in every restart but since the path is wrong it never happens.

Thanks, that's quite extensive information. Putty, there is no automated way to create user's home folders.

I'm relatively new to Unraid, even though I've been running various NAS setups. Anything from Synology to DIY solutions. I've been wondering how to properly create and share user folders. The typical solution of creating "homes" share doesn't seem to work on 7.1.4 I'm currently running. I can't even access it regardless of the settings. What is the Unraid standard way of exposing user home shares, short of creating a generic share and adding and configuring user directories manually?