Your NAS drives, connected and kept that way.
Helix maps network shares to drive letters, watches them, and brings them back when they drop: after sleep, on a new network, or when the NAS wakes up. When one will not connect, it tells you why.
Features
Built for the drives you actually have.
Thirteen shares on one NAS, a laptop that leaves the house, a server that sleeps at night. Helix is written around that, on the Win32 WNet API on Windows and NetFS on macOS.
Add a drive in seconds
Pick a free letter, type the server and the share, test it without mounting anything, save.
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Know why it will not connect
The connection check walks the name, the server, the share and the letter, and says which step failed.
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Act on several at once
Tick rows for a one-off selection, or save groups like Home and Office for the sets you use daily.
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Make it yours
Crimson by default, plus System, Light, Dark, Midnight, Amethyst, Sand and Glacier.
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Reconnects on its own
A watchdog brings dropped shares back, and catches up the moment the laptop wakes.
Wakes a sleeping NAS
Store its hardware address and Helix sends a Wake-on-LAN packet before giving up.
Away from home
Pin a drive to its network, or give it a VPN address to use everywhere else.
Schedules
Connect Office at 07:00 on weekdays, take everything down at 23:00.
Lives in the tray
Connect, disconnect and open drives from the tray, with a toast when one drops.
Scriptable
--connect-all, --wake Z, --status: drive the running app from Task Scheduler.
Encrypted at rest
SQLCipher database, PBKDF2 passwords, a recovery key, AES-256-GCM vault exports.
Six languages
English, French, German, Dutch, Indonesian and Japanese, switched live.
Screens
One window, the whole estate.
Every screenshot is recorded from the real app against a demo account whose drives point at documentation addresses.
Security
Credentials that stay where they belong.
Helix holds the passwords to your NAS, so it treats them that way.
# drive the running app from a script
Helix.App.exe --connect-group "Office"
Helix.App.exe --wake Z
Helix.App.exe --status
# PowerShell waits only when asked
Start-Process Helix.App.exe -ArgumentList '--disconnect-all' -Wait- Encrypted database. SQLite under SQLCipher, keyed from the platform's secure store.
- Never on a command line. Share passwords go to the OS mount API, where no other process can read them.
- A way back in. A one-time recovery key resets a forgotten account password.
- Verified updates. A downloaded release is checked against the digest GitHub publishes before anything is replaced.
- Read the security notes
Unzip it, register, add a drive.
Releases are self-contained: nothing to install beside them. Or build it yourself with the .NET 10 SDK and the MAUI workload.
git clone https://github.com/HilthonTT/Helix && cd Helix && dotnet build Helix.slnx