User: pencatis - 6/22/2010 5:11:08 PM
User: DriveHQ Webmaster - 6/22/2010 1:33:58 AM
User: pencatis - 6/22/2010 12:08:31 AM
i have looked at this from
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DriveHQ FTP Server Hosting Service FAQ
- I want my clients to post files to me, can I create FTP accounts for my clients?
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If you want your clients to post files to you, then your clients must be DriveHQ members. Otherwise, it is not secure to give anonymous users "write" permission to your FTP folder. If for some reasons your clients don't want to sign up, you have several options:
(a) Provide your own username and password to them. They can logon as you. Uploading files should be straight-forward in this way.
(b) Upgrade to a group account and then create a sub-account(s) for your client and provide the sub-account's username and password to your client. This way, you don't leak your own username and password to them. You need to share a folder to the sub-account. Set the folder Share Permission to "Full Access". Then your clients can logon as the sub-user account and upload files to the Shared folder. You can create different sub-accounts for different clients. You can also re-use sub-accounts.
however, I still don;t know how to specify a unique default folder for the sub account. It seems that all accounts have the same root folder.
Each sub-user (or any user) has its own "My Storage" virtual folder (the root folder) and other default folders automatically created by the system. Based on your needs, you can logon as each sub-user and delete all default files / folders in each sub-user account.
Now you can create folders as: \Users\USER1, or \Users\USER2 in your own account; then share the folder \Users\USER1 to the sub-user USER1 and share \Users\USER2 to the sub-user USER2.
then logon www.drivehq.com, click on "Group Admin" link, then click on Group Options. In the dropdown box "Group member default to", select: Sub User Shared Folder page. This page will be the ShowFolder page showing this shared folder:
\DriveHQ Share\GroupOwnerUserName\SubUserName
To clarfiy, what I would like to do is this:
The main user, an Admistrator, called them USER1, I would like them to be able to a folder called COMMONTOALL. An second user who can only upload files, call them USER2, would have their their root folder as COMMONTOALL, not \USER2\.
Also, all the files uploaded by USER2 should also be visible to USER1.
So far, what I have tried has only put in files that is only visible to each respectively. USER1 cannot see files uploaded by USER2.
>>> The main user, an Admistrator, called USER1, I would like it to be able to access a folder called COMMONTOALL. A second user who can only upload files, called USER2, would have its root folder as COMMONTOALL, not \USER2\.
Please note DriveHQ system is designed differently, but it can be very similar to what you want.
First of all, please note each user can access the root folder, which is the "My Storage" virtual folder (i.e. the remote path "\"). Now the "My storage" virtual root folder is different for each user. Every user can access files and folders in its own "My Storage" virtual folder, but it cannot access files / folders in another user's "My Storage" virtual folder.
In your above case, the user1 can create a folder called COMMONTOALL, and share the folder to user2. User2 can logon its own account and access the shared folder from the special virtual folder:
\DriveHQ Share\USER1NAME\SHARE_NAME
Note user2 can access its own root folder "\"; it also has the default folders like "\My Documents", "\wwwhome", etc. Since user1 is the group owner account, it can logon as user1 and delete these default folders to avoid any confusion to user2.
From the group options, you can set an option so that user2 goes to the "\DriveHQ Share" virtual folder right after user1 logs on.
You can share different folders to different users and set different levels of access rights.
>>> Also, all the files uploaded by USER2 should also be visible to USER1.
Using the above method, files uploaded by user2 are visible to user1.
So far, what I have tried has only put in files that is only visible to each respectively. USER1 cannot see files uploaded by USER2.
If so, it seems you have not used a shared folder. You must share a folder from user1 to user2. Then user2 and user1 can access to the same shared folder.