I think I am missing something. I have installed File Browser. The applet on the dashboard says the default login is admin/admin. That does not work. I also tried the credentials in the filebrowser-admin-password.txt file, which also do not work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Here is the filebrowser-init-log [filebrowser-init] stopping sb-filebrowser briefly to release BoltDB lock... [filebrowser-init] running filebrowser users update admin --password ... [filebrowser-init] restarting sb-filebrowser... [filebrowser-init] WARN: users update returned exit 1: Unable to find image 'filebrowser/filebrowser:v2.31.2' locally v2.31.2: Pulling from filebrowser/filebrowser cf4bef12b891: Pulling fs layer 43c4264eed91: Pulling fs layer 7b9ef589a6a5: Pulling fs laye [filebrowser-init] stopping sb-filebrowser briefly to release BoltDB lock... [filebrowser-init] running filebrowser users update admin --password ... [filebrowser-init] restarting sb-filebrowser... [filebrowser-init] WARN: users update returned exit 1: 2026/05/22 02:14:50 /database/filebrowser.db does not exist. Please run 'filebrowser config init' first. [filebrowser-init] stopping sb-filebrowser briefly to release BoltDB lock... [filebrowser-init] running filebrowser users update admin --password ... [filebrowser-init] restarting sb-filebrowser... [filebrowser-init] WARN: users update returned exit 1: 2026/05/22 02:18:16 /database/filebrowser.db does not exist. Please run 'filebrowser config init' first.
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tomspark wrote:
Hey — you didn't do anything wrong here, this one's on us. File Browser sets its own unique password at install time (so admin/admin stops working), but it wasn't showing up in the dashboard where you'd go looking for it. That's the bug. To get in right now, SSH into your NAS and run: sudo cat /opt/sparkbox/state/filebrowser-admin-password.txt Log in with username admin and the password it prints. Just shipped a fix (v1.6.134) so File Browser now shows up under Settings → Passwords like the other apps. Run sudo sparkbox update to grab it. Thanks for flagging it!
tomspark wrote:
Good news — your File Browser password is now easy to find. After sudo sparkbox update it shows in the dashboard under Settings → Service Passwords (it was missing from that list before), plus a new sudo sparkbox passwords command lists every app's password in one place. Thanks for the report!
popuman wrote:
Tried that. Same issue. Followed the AI's instructions to see if I could add a temporary one on the .env file, but I'm still unable to login to FileBrowser.
Shanereee wrote:
its saying the supplied password is incorrect. please help
Chris wrote:
Sorry you got stuck here — and there is a proper fix now that did not exist when this thread started. FileBrowser's admin password can drift out of sync with the copy saved on your box, and there is a command that regenerates both together and re-applies it to the running container: sudo sparkbox reset-password filebrowser The username stays admin, and you sign in at http://your-box-ip:8086. It prints the new password at the end, so please do not screenshot or paste that output here. If it tells you sb-filebrowser is not running, run sudo sparkbox up first and then try it again. If it still refuses you after that, say so and I will pick it up. — Chris