It is actually possible to turn the File Manger ( and any admin control ) into an instance of a module that can be added / deleted to pages in your portal.  However, it's been a while since I've done that and can't articulate the steps for you at the moment... I'm sure someone can.  However, I wonder what your real needs are?  The problem with the above approach is that the File Manger has not built-in capability to limit access once you reach it.  So anyone who could get to the File Manager could really make a mess of things if they did not know what they were doing.

If your needs are simple, you could provide your users with ANY module which had file access capabilities ( e.g. the Documents module ) and then they could use the control in the the Add Document function to upload or find files for download.  This would also honor the folder permissions set in the file manager so that if some users had more access than others, they could not misuse it.

I am not aware of any "free" File Manager alternatives, although www.speerio.net makes a very nice professional alternative ( File Manager Pro ).

Cheers

Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN

Someone basically took the filemanager tool in DNN and made it a separate,

standalone utility so you can do with it as you please... the link for it is here:

http://www.webhostforasp.net/Freeware.aspx