Hello All,
Looking to make life easier with some solution which can give good control over the shared folder permissions for Windows shared folders.
Note: As you know, the behaviour of Windows File System with applications like Microsoft Application Suite, AutoCAD etc. that whenever you are trying to rename or edit file from Windows it will create a temporary file and once we click save, it will append the changes and delete temp file. So wherever user needs to Edit/Rename, we need to give Read,Write and Delete Permission.
This is how one of our Shared Folder looks like, but it's more deeper and complex, bcuz of being lazy I just make it simple, hope you will understand
Difficulty/Problem I have:
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Managers asks me to give full permission to specific department for specific folder (child folder) and they should only able to view the files from other departments (which is necessary too). Same thing applies to all projects. And we cannot divide the files/data in Department to make it easier to give full and only view access, as all data for one project should be in one location.
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In some scenarios, I have to give users access to view/edit/rename but not delete.
Solution require :
a. Do not want to change how users are dealing now, which is accessing shared folder with Windows Explorer or Drive mapping. I guess some solutions have accessibility with browser instead of Windows Explorer which changes current approach.
b. Maybe some solutions like LogicalDoc, Alfresco can do this ?
c. We have lots of data on file server (shared folder) and projects (sub folders), about 4TB of data which may needs to be considered while looking at solution ?
Looking for suggestions from you people with a hope to make my IT life easier.