Introduction
Webmin provides facilities to transfer files to and from your server, as well as a full-fledged file manager, which can be run in your browser as a Java applet. In this chapter, we will go over using these functionalities to manage files on your server from Webmin without the need for additional tools.
The second half of the chapter will demonstrate how you can use Webmin to set up file sharing on your local network using Windows networking (CIFS), Network File System (NFS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP). If you would like to access your files from the Internet, the best solution would be to use the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) functionality, which is also covered in this chapter.
The two recipes Mounting a Windows-shared folder and Mounting a remote NFS volume in this chapter demonstrate how Webmin can help you set up a CIFS or NFS client and make remote file resources available on your system.
