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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?

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just run a web server and expose the specific files you want to share through that?

[–] PHLAK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If you have Docker hand you can use my project Directory Lister to do just this quick and easily (Docker docs).

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yea just draw the rest of the owl duh! 🙄