Windows/Linux - Instant file server with HTTP File Server

If you are an ITer, there are many situations you will need an instant file server running right on your laptop 😉. For example: when you go onsite to update firmware for some device that does not have an internet connection 🤔, or you want to share some file with your friend but just inside your local network 🤨, or very cool situation like you want to share a file from your Windows laptop to your mobile phone or other Macbook 😮. This simple file server will cover all the above situations and all the thing you need to do is just copy the URL from the tool and paste it to the target device browser, lets explore how cool is it! 😎

Download from: https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=dl

User Interface

The interface is simple and very easy to use, there are just 3 portions need to care:

1. The address bar will be the URL you need to copy and paste to the target device.

2. The left panel will be the list of files that are available on your file server.

3. The right panel is the Window of the log that shows the process or status of connection or downloading from the target device.

Add files to the server

Just right click on the left panel, select Add files

Select and open a file want to share

The file that needs to share will be on the left panel.

Download files from other machines

Now, all you need to do is just select the file from the left panel, then copy the URL shown on the URL textbar. In my case, it is http://192.168.10.147:5000/Test.txt

I will use my raspberry pi to download this file for this case.

My Laptop where I set up the file server is on 192.168.10.147.

The raspberry pi where I will download files from Laptop is on 192.168.10.141.

Now I will use wget on the raspberry pi to download the test file:

NOTE: Remember to turn off the firewall on your Laptop if any, in my case, I'm using McAfee, the I turn off the firewall as steps below

It's up to the antivirus or defender software you are using, you need to find the dedicated setting to turn off the firewall, otherwise, you will not able to download from other devices.

Remember to turn on the firewall again after all 😉

And this is my result from Raspberry pi.

You also can see the result of downloading process HFS show on the right panel

Hope you enjoy it make it useful for your work. 😊