Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?
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Looking at using Owncloud/Nextcloud, but can you really not restrict permissions on subfolders? Am I missing something?
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No, you cannot. It's not a folder based system like a traditional file system. You have to change your approach.
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aka - you now need to have hundreds of shares get the granularity you want/need? I've never loaded it, so I'm really asking.
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@Dashrender said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
aka - you now need to have hundreds of shares get the granularity you want/need? I've never loaded it, so I'm really asking.
Well, not exactly, as the concept of shares are gone.
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So anything needing differing permissions needs to be a root folder... seems like things could turn into an unwieldy mess if you need alot of different access to things.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
So anything needing differing permissions needs to be a root folder... seems like things could turn into an unwieldy mess if you need alot of different access to things.
It is not designed to drop in replace a file share design. If you want to drop in replace a file share setup this is not your solution.
If you want to sit back and rethink your share usage, then you may be able to use this.
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So help me out a little... I'm having trouble seeing a use case for OwnCloud. How have you deployed it?
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Pydio is way more powerful than owncloud..
You can even do public or password protected guest uploads.
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@Jason said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
You can even do public or password protected guest uploads.
You can do this with ownCloud too.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
So help me out a little... I'm having trouble seeing a use case for OwnCloud. How have you deployed it?
I'm using it to keep all my important docs synced / available across all my devices...
What are you needing to do with it that requires assigning subfolder permissions?
And my install (ownCloud 9.0) will allow me to share subfolders with other users...
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My Sales group is spread out all over, they we're using DropBox (free) to sync a central folder across their laptops, but they have several folders that only certain sales people need access to etc... Dropbox gives you permissions on sub folders so they are using that right now. I'm wanting to switch them to a FOSS option since they are out of space on Dropbox and don't want to spend money on Dropbox for business.
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Create a master sales account in ownCloud... then create a sales group and add all your sales guys in it....
Create a folder in the sales account and share it with the sales group... files that everybody gets goes in here.
Then for the guys who have their own folders, create a folder in the sales account and share it only with them or create another group that matches what they need?
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@dafyre said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
Create a master sales account in ownCloud... then create a sales group and add all your sales guys in it....
Create a folder in the sales account and share it with the sales group... files that everybody gets goes in here.
Then for the guys who have their own folders, create a folder in the sales account and share it only with them or create another group that matches what they need?
That was my initial thought, it just throws off the organization of the folders... Sales Manager doesn't like it.
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@Jason said:
Pydio is way more powerful than owncloud..
I had forgotten about Pydio. Looks really good. Are you using the community or enterprise?
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@brianlittlejohn said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
@dafyre said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
Create a master sales account in ownCloud... then create a sales group and add all your sales guys in it....
Create a folder in the sales account and share it with the sales group... files that everybody gets goes in here.
Then for the guys who have their own folders, create a folder in the sales account and share it only with them or create another group that matches what they need?
That was my initial thought, it just throws off the organization of the folders... Sales Manager doesn't like it.
Then keep the folder structure and assign permissions that way. If Johnny doesn't have access to the subfolder that Jane and Billy Jo do, it won't sync to his machine.
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@dafyre said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
@Jason said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
You can even do public or password protected guest uploads.
You can do this with ownCloud too.
not with open source. the uploads portal for non-signed users/dropbox says it needs enterpise at least when we tried it.
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@aaronstuder said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
@Jason said:
Pydio is way more powerful than owncloud..
I had forgotten about Pydio. Looks really good. Are you using the community or enterprise?
Community.
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@Jason said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
@dafyre said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
@Jason said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
You can even do public or password protected guest uploads.
You can do this with ownCloud too.
not with open source. the uploads portal for non-signed users/dropbox says it needs enterpise at least when we tried it.
Works fine for me... But I have an individual user set up for my uploads folder.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Owncloud Subfolder Permissions?:
Looking at using Owncloud/Nextcloud, but can you really not restrict permissions on subfolders? Am I missing something?
I think it's less about restricting access and more about what you want visible to your users. From what I've seen owncloud relies on you setting up your groups appropriately and it will essentially function in the way you want. I personally made groups for every job title and they can only see folders that that group is allowed to see for instance.
I also changed they way we organize folders though.
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