I'm on unRaid 6.0, in case that seems useful to know what is on the system.

 

This is kind of weird, well it doesn't seem so to me but it is in general.

I have a linux machine, in the house that is permanently on a VPN connection and runs my bittorrent services.

The download drive where that puts the data from the torrent files is the cache drive, of my unRaid tower.

(So in short, that linux box samba mounts the cache drive from unRaid).

I have the automatic moving of stuff on the cache drive into the array turned off, because I like to sort it myself.

 

So when "stuff" is downloaded. I would in general like to be able to open a gui to the unRaid machine, and then drag the files in /mnt/cache/bitorrent/data to /mnt/user/anime/<whatever anime series>/ via a GUI.

 

Right now I log in, and cp or mv the files in UNIX. And hey, that works. But it seems more time consuming and cumbersome to type esoteric names in the quotes than it should be.

 

Now I have tried just opening both as shares, from windows, and dragging a file from one share to another.. but of course this means the file transfers off unRaid's cache share to my Windows PC, then it transfers it back onto the unRaid array and into the user share. Really inefficient.. and ultimately stupid.

 

I was looking to see if unRaid had vncserver on it, then I could just open to it, and use the file manager in it to transfer the files between the native filesystems, but it doesn't seem built into it. And it makes sense that unRaid probably doesn't have all the x windows requirements to run it.. (nor a file manager for X) so one would need a complicated docker.

 

How do other people deal with this? I'm really handy in UNIX.. but it doesn't seem like that helps. I could probably write an esoteric script to categorize stuff, easier, to make less movement required. But it doesn't seem to me that what I want to do should be.. so.. unsupported, natively. So I wanted to ask the question before going down that route.

 

Any advice?

Midnight Commander (MC) from the command line is a nifty tool. Running this within Screen will also let you drop the telnet connection and come back to it too (for long file operations) is what I would use:

 

https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Transferring_Files_Within_the_unRAID_Server#Midnight_Commander_-_Easy_to_Use_GUI_Tool

 

You could try these Dockers:

 

Filebot for automated File Management: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=40400.0

 

Krusader* for manual File Management: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=37209

 

* Krusader is a GUI within an RDP container BUT is accessible via a browser.

 

You can install these Dockers via the Community Applications Plugin on unRAID v6.

Krusader seems like it would be spot on for what I want to do. I will try out this solution. Thanks!

I made an EDIT to the post above and you might not have seen it before replying.

 

Check out Midnight Commander too.

Thanks, I saw the MC edit, but I've never been terribly fond of that.

I installed Krusader, it is exactly what I wanted. This is way, way faster than what I was doing already.

 

I am ecstatically pleased.Thank you so much.

 

Happy to help!

Another option that might work is WinSCP.  It runs on Windows and remote connects to Unraid.  It's mostly for moving files TO/FROM Unraid, but there might be a way to move files around on Unraid with it.

 

Hope that helps someone,

 

Russell