Have you ever wanted to ask your family, friends, customers or suppliers to upload files to your Synology with a simple link and without having to give them per
Well, now you can. I discovered this by chance…
Here is how:
Navigate to the folder you want them to upload the files or create one:
Right-click on the folder and click on “Create a file request”:
Now:
- Set the validity period
- Copy the link to email it to them
- Send them a custom message
- Enable password protection
This is what they will see when they navigate to the link you sent them:
And you are done!!
Do you want to delete the link?
Follow this simple instructions.
Do you want to share your files instead? Here is a tutorial.
Hi, I just found your blog after having my NAS for a short while now. 🙂 I am an intermediate PC user however I might have loads of questions.
This article is useful to allow people to upload to a specified folder, however, my question is, will these people (or any of them) have access to this folder too? (after uploading to it)
Or do I have to control that with general folder access rules?
Example: I make a ‘public’ folder. I share it with someone to upload whatever to it. If I don’t want this to be accessable to everyone, do I just setup guest or user rights?
Exactly, you just specify who has access to that folder,
/Ruth
Merci pour votre tutoriel ! j’ai cherché pendent des heures sur photo station sans succès !
Fantastic!! Glad it worked for you!
/Ruth
Thanks so much for posting this! I was trying to figure out how best to get a bunch of people to upload files to a specific location (esp. if not all are Google users) and came across this! Glad to know my synology has alternative uses.
Hi Jess, your synology is a gem! Glad I could help a little 🙂
/Ruth
Hi..do you know if synolgy sends the synology owner notification that someone has uploaded a file?
Hi Al, the times I have used it, I never got a notification, so, as far as I know, it doesn’t send a notification.
/Ruth
Somehow this doesn’t work. I’ve got the url with my username.synology.me/5000… but nothing loads there. I tried changing the url for just the ip:5000 and then I only can access but not people outside my network.
Mmmm and your users can access your synology from outside your network?
It works like a charm for me!
I don’t have the option “creat file reguest”… only “share file links”. What it’s wrong? ore do I need to enable “guest” account first?
Hi Edwin, you don’t, it should work without it.
/Rutg
Thank you for this post. Are there any requirements to the filesystem? I have installed the latest DSM Version 6.1.3 an I can’t find the entry “Create file request” an my folder!
Regards Gerd
Thank you for your blog. Are there any requirements on the filesystem or any were else? I have installed the latest DMS Version 6.1.3 in my DS212j an I have not the entry “Create file request” on the content menu of the folder. What’s wrong?
Regards Gerd
I have found the solution. You can’t make a “Create file request” for the shared folder itself. It’s only possible for folders under the shared folder.
Regards Gerd
Thanks for sharing 🙂
file request might be disabled for other users except the admin user. you can enable it under the admin user in filestation –> settings –> shared links.
If someone has figured out how to enable email notification to the specific users emailaddress (meaning: the user that has initiated the file request), when files are uploaded, that would be worth my kudo’s!!!
I don’t, but hopefully someone here does 🙂
/Ruth
Hi! Thanks for sharing this! I was really happy to find that information. I would like to use it for commercial use, so I would be happy to customize the css of it…do you think it’s possible? Also, I would like to have it in English even if my NAS is configured in French. I didn’t find any other commercial services that would do the same: wetransfer, smash….they’re all about uploading/sending files but there is no way to send a request from a client.
Not really sure, I have to check!
/Ruth
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing! You’re the top google hit on this matter 🙂
Am I? Amazing!! :))))
Thanks for the feedback and for sharing it with me 🙂
/Ruth
There must be another setting that needs to be changed. When I right click on the folder, there are only 9 menu items ending with Properties, Rename and Delete
Sorry, I meant to thank everyone for the posts. I’m having trouble. I would appreciate your help. Cheers.
I’m so embarrassed! I figured it out. The drop down is on the right screen, not the left – just as Junggerd said.
Glad it worked out 🙂
/Ruth
my link is a local ip address (ie. 192.168.x.x) which does not work. It’s the hostname. Am I missing something? I can access my server externally with my quickconnect no problem
This is a tutorial to show how external users or guest users can upload files on your synology.
Hope this clarifies it 🙂
/Ruth
Thanks for your reply. I am not sure what you are saying. I read your instructions here and it doesn’t work. Are you saying there is another tutorial?
How does you link look like?
/Ruth
https://192.168.1.150:63342/sharing/hov9DOyOG
So, if you are trying to share files externally, you need to point to the external IP address of your NAS or your users won’t be able to see the file. They don’t have access to your local network.
/Ruth
That was my original post and point. When use this method, it provides the internal, local network IP address, it does not use the external IP address. So how does one do that?