unraid // filebrowser-quantum install for a beginner?

[jerry-nz]

hi there!

I've recently built an Unraid server and i am wanting a filesharing scheme to more easily simulate how synology works with sharing a directory to users. I began by using 'Filebrowser-PNP' and failed. Seeing that was not being developed i moved over to 'Filebrowser-Quantum'

Unfortunately I look to be getting the same/similar errors using Quantum. Therefore i think its a gap in my understanding of docker containers, and possibly in mapping configs/databases.

Below is a series of screengrabs with how i have set it up within Unraid. I would dearly love for someone to have a quick perve at this and see where I might have gone wrong... I've tried a LOT of variables on this. I've searched high and low in here and reddit for the answer to no avail... i feel like I'm missing some obvious information.

And thank you for your time in advance! I am certain others will benefit from my woes, hence me committing public humiliation and asking the noob questions lol

Cheers
Jerry

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So to begin (after reading someone on here who had success in doing it this way), i enabled Docker within Unraid, and then installed 'Filebrowser-PNP' from the apps tab.

This gives me a starting point to edit which looks like so (pink arrows are what i have changed before hitting 'apply'):

the path entry's look like so, gained from the Filebrowser-PNP starting point:

i hit apply and:

hitting the 'view container log':

to me that tells me it
-- read a config file that came with the install.
-- couldn't find a database file, so made its own.

All is seemingly ok so far and things are running ok:

In a browser and going to 192.168.2.6:8080 it looks like so:

username/password is admin and I'm in!

i start to set it up by adding a user like so:

I test logging in using these new credentials. This also works

But...

Things start getting sticky when i go to edit the container like so:

if i change nothing at all then hit apply things happen again:

but checking the container logs it looks like so:

and the things that terrify me are:
-- it's creating a new database, therefore losing my settings i've already applied.
-- resetting password (because of the above), and some testing shows me also removing the user i created

So in short... I've been reset completely! Doh!

further to this, if i go and look inside my shares an appdata has been created (expected):

a "filebrowser" directory has been made with a "db" directory within:

and nothing inside the "db" directory:

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So ... I think my questions from here are:
-- do i need to manually create a filebrowser.db and config.yaml file? if so, where exactly? and from what?
-- related question: shouldn't the repository automatically make those for me?
-- i feel like I've fumbled the mapping of the filebrowser.db, although I've kept it the same as the 'Filebrowser-PNP'.
-- anything else I've missed the obvious on?

[D3NY75]

Hello, I would also be interested in a beginner's guide for Unraid, as I'm having the same problems as you and it's not enjoyable working with this file browser. Which is a shame, because in my opinion it has potential. :-(

[trentferguson]

Following this thread as I’m having identical issues trying to install on unRAID. Looking forward to an official unRAID CA Template at this app looks incredible!

[hermibot-cmyk]

Thanks Jerry for putting yourself out there, i looked at this months ago as i wished to use this for a few of my daughters to be able to use and have a storage space at home while living away at uni for back up.

This was also my very first for foray into unraid or any form of a home nas, i fiddled around and found out just how my understanding of how these systems work is obviously extremely limited and have just been waiting in the background for a stable release to have a crack at.

I certainly wish to use this filebrowser and not the previous one and will quietly follow until it seems clearer for myself to implement.

[masterwishx]

Made template XML for Unraid : https://forums.unraid.net/topic/194954-support-template-masterwishx-filebrowser-quantum/