Comment on CopyParty is kind of a great file server
tripflag@lemmy.world 2 days agoThere were comments about security risks though, based on being a small project with a LOT of integrations.
time will show, but the only thing i actively regret adding was the support for discord embeds (the “og” option); opengraph is an awfully designed concept and, unrelatedly, it has been a source of a handful of bugs in how it was implemented in copyparty (that one’s on me). Keeping that disabled avoids a lot of edgecases, most of which are decreed by the opengraph spec.
That said, there’s no features keeping me up at night; i think for the most part things are fine – just don’t enable the smb server 😁
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Isn’t SMB the thing that makes it available to Windows? What’s the issue?
tripflag@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The best and recommended way to connect to copyparty (either from windows, linux, or macos) is with WebDAV – this will give you much higher performance. WebDAV is also a MUCH safer choice when connecting over the internet, since it is just https after all. Meanwhile, exposing SMB to the internet is generally a recipe for, well… nasty surprises :-)
There are also very copyparty-specific reasons to not use the SMB-server, and these are explained in the readme. That’s also why the SMB-server is not possible to enable in any of the official copyparty distributions without manually obtaining the necessary dependencies for that (impacket).
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I checked my setup, and webDAV is indeed what I am using. Good that they made it impossible to accidentally use an unsafe method.
Thank you for the explanation!