Wings SFTP does not support mounts / Add an option for managing multiple servers

[based-us3r]

Access to a real view of the file system from Wings SFTP would be beneficial. For example, creating a shared folder accessible from the internal client and file browsing tools would be useful. In the current implementation, SFTP mounts are only visible to the servers, and any changes occur only in the volume containing the server.

It would also be preferable to have a more general SFTP implementation that allows entry of just the name without needing an additional serverId, providing access to all servers available to the user. Working with a large number of servers sometimes arises, and manually adding them is extremely challenging.

[parkervcp]

I understand that you can't see a mount in SFTP and that is due to it being outside the folder path of the server files. We keep a hard separation between what the sftp shows to users for security.

Please remember that not all servers will be on the same backend host machine either.

[based-us3r]

I understand that you can't see a mount in SFTP and that is due to it being outside the folder path of the server files. We keep a hard separation between what the sftp shows to users for security.

I understand, but in the current implementation, mounts don't provide any significant benefits. They're difficult to create, modify, delete, or use. Essentially, they're just vaults.

To make them more useful, it would be beneficial to introduce the option to create private mounts, while shared mounts could provide the necessary functionality for sharing files.

It would be great if we could create mounts as volumes within /var/lib/docker directly from the panel. Additionally, having the ability to access and manage host folders mapped into the server environment would be convenient, given that mount security is already tightly controlled through Wings settings.

Please remember that not all servers will be on the same backend host machine either.

I understand, but even an implementation that requires importing four shards with different addresses, each containing 18 servers, would be much more convenient than managing all 72 servers manually. There’s no need to synchronize all Wings SFTP instances; simply providing a sharded solution would be fantastic already.