Group Folders not sharing properly

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And here is one more:

Create 3 groups:

  • Groupfolderadmins
  • Employees
  • Customers

Go to https://YOURCLOUD.TLD/settings/admin/groupfolders and create one groupfolder e.g. “Name-of-Company”:

  • /Name-of-Company

Assign this group folder to the following groups:

Group Write Share Delete
Groupfolderadmins [X] [X] [X] X
Employees [X] [X] [X] X
Customers [ ] [ ] [ ] X

And “Advanced permissions” you assign to the “Groupfolderadmins”:

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Create a folder only for you and your employees insight of this Groupfolder.:

  • /Name-of-Company/Employees

and a folder for your Custommers:

  • /Name-of-Company/Clients

Members of the Groupfolderadmins group will now find an area like this in the Sharing tab of each file and folder inside of the created Group folder (in this example the sharing tab of a folder named Group folder):

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When you click on the image tab and adds a user or group, you will see the inherited permissions:

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And you are now able to change those permissions.

Now you can deny “Read, Write, Creat, Delete and Share permissions” to the Customers group for the Employees-folder. Members from the Customers Group now wil not even SEE that folder.

In the Clients-folder, you can create a folder for each individual customer, and the trick when assigning rights is the order: First, you have to explicitly permit the individual customer (the mere inherited rights are not sufficient for the next step). In next step ALL rights are withdrawn from the “Customers” group. As a result, only the assigned customer can see his own folder and all other customers cannot see that folder. Employees will be able to see those folders.

Feel encouraged to experiment with this incredibly flexible ACL solution, the possibilities are endless.

In my previous suggestion (Post #6) I favored guest accounts.
This solution here can be perfectly combined with that proposal.
The customers can be invited as guests and then added to the Custommers group. This means that they can only use the company offer, but not upload their holiday photos and use the other cloud services privately.