Which storage backends can Foldr connect to?
Foldr aggregates storage from many systems behind a single navigable file tree. Admins choose which backends to expose to which users; from the user’s side, every backend appears as a normal folder in the web app, mobile apps, and the desktop drive. The list below covers everything Foldr supports today.
Network and traditional file shares
- SMB / CIFS: Windows file servers, Linux Samba, NAS appliances, plus cloud-hosted SMB services like Azure Files. Active Directory authentication and service-account access are both supported. On-premise SMB requires line of sight from the Foldr server, so it is most common on Self-hosted; cloud-SMB endpoints work from either flavour. See Presenting SMB shares to users and Connecting on-premise home folders and shared drives.
- Local filesystem: folders on the Foldr server itself, useful for staging or appliance-local content. Self-hosted only.
- FTP / SFTP: passive-mode FTP and SSH-based SFTP servers. Configure from Foldr Settings.
- WebDAV: any WebDAV-speaking server, including Nextcloud, ownCloud, and similar.
Microsoft 365
- OneDrive for Business: per-user OneDrive mailboxes mounted into Foldr. See OneDrive and SharePoint Online integration.
- SharePoint Online: full sites or specific document libraries. See Presenting SharePoint Online sites.
- SharePoint on-premise: self-hosted SharePoint servers. Self-hosted only. See On-premise SharePoint support.
- Microsoft Teams: files attached to Teams channels, surfaced as a Foldr share alongside everything else.
Google Workspace
- Google Drive: personal accounts and Workspace user drives. See Google Drive and Workspace integration.
- Google Shared Drives (formerly Team Drives): see Presenting Google Shared Drives to users.
Cloud object storage
- Amazon S3: AWS S3 plus S3-compatible services (MinIO, Ceph, others). Configure with your bucket name and access keys.
- Wasabi: a hot-storage S3-compatible service with simple pricing. See Presenting Wasabi cloud storage.
- Backblaze B2: Backblaze’s object storage. Configure from Foldr Settings.
- Azure Blob Storage: containers and blobs. See Storage: presenting Azure Blob Storage.
Personal cloud storage
- Dropbox: personal accounts and Dropbox Business team folders. See Dropbox integration.
Foldr-native presentation
- Group Drives: not a backend in their own right, but a way of presenting other people’s personal storage (home folders, OneDrive, Google Drive, anything “personal”) to an authorised user, resolved in that user’s context. Pick a directory group, and the share lists every user in those groups; opening a user’s folder steps into their personal storage stack as if you were them. Useful for teachers reviewing student work, managers checking reports’ files, HR offboarding, data-subject requests, IT recovery. See Group Drives.
The admin workflow is the same for every backend: open Foldr Settings, pick the backend type, supply credentials or service-account info, and define which users or groups see the resulting share. From there it shows up like any other folder.
If you don’t see the backend you need above, contact us. Many of the entries on this list started as customer requests.