Dropbox Alternative With Granular Subfolder Permissions

AdHustler

AdHustler

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Does anyone know of a Dropbox Alternative With Granular Subfolder Permissions? I have a team that's out on the road and I want to be able to give them access to our inhouse file server but I need certain people to have access to certain subfolders.

Dropbox business doesnt do this (Only access to the entire folder and everything within, no granular access)

Drop.com - Same as Dropbox.
 


You could do this with webdav, theres probably tools out there to make managing the permissions easier (than editing a conf manually)
 
Pretty sure box does this. Was just reading an article on techcrunch and this is one of the main reasons why people choose box over Dropbox.
 
I don't think any of the cloud services have the granular folder sharing that you are looking for. it can be only implemented with a project management kind of a setting.
 
AdHustler said:
neither one of these have the feature i'm asking for.
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Yea I know Dropbox doesn't work like that, I was just stating I like it.

Maybe I'm not following exactly what you want, so I took some photos of Box's user settings for sub folders.

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Let's say I need folders laid out like this

2014 Customers (Top Level) >>> Client A (Subfolder)
2014 Customers (Top Level) >>> Client B (Subfolder)

Then I have 2 sales people Salesperson A & Salesperson B - Salesperson A needs to only have access to Client A but not B and salesperson B needs to only have access to B and Not A.

When you share the '2014 customers' folder you can't restrict access to any of the subfolders. You end up giving access to ALL of the client folders. When you only give access to the client folder 'Client A' it goes to the top level in the salespersons account. Hense this causes an issue because how is 'Client A' in out 2014 Customers folder differentiated from 'Client A' in our 2013 customers folder?

You should be able to give access to the root folder and restrict access from subfolders which does not seem to be possible.
 
Your guys ok with FTP / sFTP for access? You could always password protect via .htaccess if wanted as well I guess.

Just grab a LINUX VPS, and upload all your files to say, /home/files. Then create a new user / FTP account for each of your sales people, so they'll each have their own home dirs at say /home/john, /home/mike, etc.

Then within each users directory, just create system links to the /home/files directory. For example, you could have:

/home/john/2014/
/home/john/2014/clienta -> system link to /home/files/2014/clienta

/home/mike/2014/
/home/mike/2014/clientb -> system link to /home/files/2014/clientb

Not sure, but I think things like cPanel allow you to create system links. If not, it's the "ln -s dest source" command in LINUX.
 
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