Sorry for the generic title.

 

Is it possible to create individual secure shares that someone would be able to access via FTP? I'm just considering upgrading my internet and allowing people to do off site backups to my unraid server. Likewise, I may want to allow people to remotely download some content from a share.

 

Possible? Recommended? already done?

I'm using the Crashplan Docker container to do this.

Maybe Owncloud?

Sorry for the generic title.

 

Is it possible to create individual secure shares that someone would be able to access via FTP? I'm just considering upgrading my internet and allowing people to do off site backups to my unraid server. Likewise, I may want to allow people to remotely download some content from a share.

 

Possible? Recommended? already done?

 

This can be done, the better question is how do you do this safely since unRAID was not designed to be internet facing.

not sure the best way to do it but maybe put a web server in front of it that allows log in?

Yes, it is possible. The only way I would do it is through a VPN (and this is how I do it myself). Just give the users access to your VPN server so that they can use the share. If you open up your server to the internet (like via FTP) bad things tend to happen.

do you mean create a VPN using unraid?

I believe you can, there is an openvpn plugin that should do the trick. I personally use a pfSense network system but that is probably over kill if you are only using it for a vpn server.

I used smoothwall for a while but don't have it active anymore. Very secure but very picky.

 

Anyway, will look into the openvpn option.

I used smoothwall for a while but don't have it active anymore. Very secure but very picky.

 

Anyway, will look into the openvpn option.

 

Try Smoothwall 3.1 32bit with Zerina Mod (OpenVPN). I've used and installed Smoothwall firewall on over 200 boxes since version 2.0 and it's by far easier to use "out-of-the-box". Never experienced anything picky about it and far easier than Pfsense.