Shared folders

A shared folder is a resource on the system which can be accessed according to services installed on the system and permissions set by this module.

Create new / edit

Depending on the services installed on your system you will see several tabs.

General

Name
The name of the shared folder. It can only contain lower case letters, numbers, dots, dashes and underscores. The maximum length of the name is 12 characters.
Description
Optional field for a brief description of the shared folder.
Group owner
The owning group of the shared folder, only members of the group can access the folder.
Allow writing to the group owner
Allow write access to members of the owning group.
Allow read access to all
Read access to anyone who connects to the system, as well as public networks.
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ACL

The Access Control List allows specifing access permissions to the shared folder for each users or groups, in addition to those of the group owner.

Read
Allow or deny read access to the user or group selected.
Write
Allow or deny the access in writing to the user or group selected.

Delete

Removes the folder and all its contents. The action is not reversible! The only way to recover the contents of a folder shared that as been removed is to restore a backup.

Reset permissions

Set the group owner and ACLs configured using this module on all files in the folder. The operation will be performed recursively on all files and subfolders in the shared folder.