There are a few software out there, but i like File Browser a lot because it's lightweight, don't get in the way, is flexible and simple to use, but i do not like the default installation method of FileBrowser because it will install system-wide. I will show you how to install in a more customized way.

FileBrowser will run as the fileserver user that you created above. You will need to create the following folders architecture in your *fileserver* home folder: - bin: where the FileBrowser binary will be located - data/db: where the FileBrowser databases files will be stored - data/logs: where the various log files will be created

You need to set the umask for the user to 0002 so that any new files created by it will be writable by the users.

Then, as fileserver user, get the software package and decompress it. The default install approach is based on a auto executable web link (here) which i do not recommend to use directly. Instead go to here and download the proper package for your architecture. Then:

su - fileserver
echo "umask 0002" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
mkdir bin data data/logs data/db
cd bin
tar xvf ../linux-amd64-filebrowser.tar.gz

Now, you will need to start a copy of FileBrowser for each share you want to have, and it must be owned by the user that want file permissions on that share. To achieve this, you will be using a special script called fileserver.sh which i will show you at the end, because it will contain also the WebDAV start stuff in it.