diff --git a/filemanager/inc/class.filemanager_ui.inc.php b/filemanager/inc/class.filemanager_ui.inc.php
index cf8f6c5c1e..dd604a2a44 100644
--- a/filemanager/inc/class.filemanager_ui.inc.php
+++ b/filemanager/inc/class.filemanager_ui.inc.php
@@ -477,7 +477,11 @@ class filemanager_ui
 			'5' => 'Files from links',
 			'0'  => 'Files from subdirectories',
 		);
-
+		// sharing has no divAppbox, we need to set popupMainDiv instead, to be able to drop files everywhere
+		if (substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], -10) == '/share.php')
+		{
+			$tpl->setElementAttribute('nm[buttons][upload]', 'drop_target', 'popupMainDiv');
+		}
 		$tpl->exec('filemanager.filemanager_ui.index',$content,$sel_options,$readonlys,array('nm' => $content['nm']));
 	}
 
diff --git a/filemanager/templates/default/index.xet b/filemanager/templates/default/index.xet
index 863f225d9d..b383990f78 100644
--- a/filemanager/templates/default/index.xet
+++ b/filemanager/templates/default/index.xet
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@
 		</hbox>
 	</template>
 	<template id="filemanager.index" template="" lang="" group="0" version="1.9.003">
-		<description id="msg" class="message"/>
 		<nextmatch id="nm" template="filemanager.index.rows" header_left="filemanager.index.header_left"/>
-		<styles>
-			input[type='file'] {
-width: 50ex
-}
-		</styles>
 	</template>
 </overlay>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/filemanager/templates/default/sharing.css b/filemanager/templates/default/sharing.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..29a5af3f0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/filemanager/templates/default/sharing.css
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/**
+ * EGroupware - CSS Styles used by sharing GUI
+ *
+ * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GPL - GNU General Public License
+ * @package etemplate
+ * @link http://www.egroupware.org
+ * @author Ralf Becker <rb@stylite.de>
+ * @copyright (c) 2014 by Ralf Becker <rb@stylite.de>
+ * @version $Id$
+ */
+
+div#popupMainDiv {
+	height: 100% !important;
+	padding: 0 !important;
+	background-image: none;
+}
+
+/**
+ * simplify NM UI for sharing
+ */
+div#filemanager-index_buttons img, div#filemanager-index_favorite_wrapper,
+div.header_row_right, span.header_count, select#filemanager-index_filter, span.selectcols {
+	display: none !important;
+}
+
+div.filemanager_navigation label {
+	/*right: 265px !important;*/
+}
+
+div.search {
+	position: absolute;
+	top: 8px;
+	right: 215px;
+}
+
+div#filemanager-index_buttons div.et2_file {
+	margin-top: 6px;
+}
+
+div.et2_nextmatch div.nextmatch_header_row {
+	padding-bottom: 0px;
+}
+
+div.nextmatch_header {
+	padding-bottom: 0 !important;
+	padding-top: 10px !important;
+}
diff --git a/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw.inc.php b/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw.inc.php
index 91ec2000f2..235ce1d0dd 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw.inc.php
@@ -362,7 +362,12 @@ class egw extends egw_minimal
 				// present a login page, if anon user has no right for an application
 				if ($this->session->session_flags == 'A')
 				{
-					throw new egw_exception_redirect('/logout.php');
+					// need to destroy a basic auth session here, because it will only be available on current url
+					if (($sessionid = egw_session::get_sessionid(true)))
+					{
+						$GLOBALS['egw']->session->destroy($sessionid);
+					}
+					throw new egw_exception_redirect(egw::link('/logout.php'));
 				}
 				if ($currentapp == 'admin' || $GLOBALS['egw_info']['flags']['admin_only'])
 				{
diff --git a/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw_sharing.inc.php b/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw_sharing.inc.php
index db51e3773e..c7370bc44f 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw_sharing.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/inc/class.egw_sharing.inc.php
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class egw_sharing
         	$path_info = $matches[1];
         }
         $path_info = substr($path_info, strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']));
-		list(, $token/*, $path*/) = explode('/', $path_info, 3);
+		list(, $token/*, $path*/) = preg_split('|[/?]|', $path_info, 3);
 
 		$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] = $token;
 		if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'])) $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] = '';
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ class egw_sharing
 		}
 		// run full eTemplate2 UI for directories
 		$_GET['path'] = '/';
+		$_GET['cd'] = 'no';
+		$GLOBALS['egw_info']['flags']['js_link_registry'] = true;
+		egw_framework::includeCSS('/filemanager/templates/default/sharing.css');
 		$ui = new egw_sharing_filemanager();
 		$ui->index();
 	}