What do you use for file management on FreeNas volumes?

[anodos]

I think what the OP is wanting is something that is a simple click, click move interface whether it is within the same dataset or another dataset. I seem to remember installing webmin into a jail at one point on 9.3 and it worked perfectly. It's a prebuilt package so it's a pretty simple setup and then access the GUI through a browser. This is a control panel for web hosting but it has a built in file manager as most control panels of this nature have and I remember it working pretty well for a few things.

http://doxfer.webmin.com/Webmin/Installation#pkg_.28FreeBSD.29

Once it's up and running just access at 10000 port and the Jail IP address unless you changed it during the setup. And add access to the storage you want it to be able to handle

I do however have to say it seems to have some scary access abilities if you click on "Hardware" and then partitions on local disks you can actually see the physical disks and some other stuff without adding storage. Since my system is up and running I am not going to add mounts but it is interesting that it is accessible from the jail.

Adding a second webgui and all its dependencies to freenas just so that you can click on things to manage files seems... wrong.

 

[pirateghost]

Adding a second webgui and all its dependencies to freenas just so that you can click on things to manage files seems... wrong.

You've been around long enough to have seen the types of things people are willing to do to save a buck...

 

[anodos]

You've been around long enough to have seen the types of things people are willing to do to save a buck...

A younger version of myself would be all over this solution like white on rice, but my older self would tell my younger self 'if you need to manipulate a lot of files locally, install midnight commander in a jail, add storage to it, and read some manpages'.

 

[nightshade00013]

I agree that a lot of ways are better to do it for local management. Adding a second webgui is also half of what people end up doing for different things though, Plex is a webgui in it's own way as is PHPvirtualbox and some people will add it install ubuntu or windows and attach storage so the system for local management. There are a ton of different ways out there to do it all and some are better than others.

I originally did it as a test bed for some web hosting stuff where having a webgui makes my life a whole lot easier. It does have the benefit of being one package that uses perl and is fairly lightweight compared to some other options.