Hello,
I plan on making some form server where I can use a html log in page where I can go into my file system from there and I cannot find a reliable answer on how to perform this task. I am comfortable using a lampstack as my planned host operating system is either Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server or Debian Jessie.
I guess OwnCloud would be a good solution for that.
I don't think owncloud can do that, it has it's own storage so you can't just access everything unless you add it all to owncloud. You may be able to get it to work using the external storage plugin but I'm not sure about that.
I used to use something which does what you want but I don't remember what it was called. Is using a VPN not an option? If you use a VPN you can access you files using regular network shares.
Don't try to build such a thing on your own to access your files on a public network.
That would be begging for hack attacks.
If you really want a stable cloud, use OwnCloud.
If you just want something like a NAS, use:
- (S)FTP
- Samba
- NFS
If web access is important to you, you can maybe use WebDAV.
Owncloud really seems to be the best system here.
I am personally using Owncloud on my website to manage my Documents and similar things.
Installation is very simple (I was able to do it...) and very well documented.
Personally I would suggest you to rent a cheap EC2 instance or similar to put a web server running Owncloud on and use the external storage plugin to establish a FTP connection to your PC where the files you want to share are located.
buy asus router like the RT-AC66U or anysimilar model with AI cloud feature. put a usb RAID array on it or NAS on the ethernet. Have the DDNS set up, and your usb shared set up and you can share any file from your home to any place on the net if they know the url, login and password.
I have tried something similar with a different kind of "router" and it was painfully slow (250kb/s)
Those ARM Chips probably can't handle the load of copying files to an external disk.
I haven't looked further into my particular problem, so I can't say for sure whether this is an issue cause by the lack of compute power, inefficient firmware or some other kind of problem.
Thank you all for your replies. I am looking into doing something like this because I have around 4TB of virtual machines and iso files that I want to have accessible at any time I would also like the challenge of learning from it.
If you are looking for file sync only, you could try Seafile. I found the install process easier than ownCloud's one. Furthermore I've read that Seafile is faster and more reliable, but that was about a year ago and things change.