Access Permissions

After creating a Group Work Area you have to give permissions to the users in order to have access to the network share. This is done by first clicking at the share name as shown at Figure 3.23.

There are 3 different types of permissions:

• None: No access to the share. Users have no access to open a share folder of a workstation;
• Read Only: Users have access to share folders and its files. Nevertheless, they are not allowed to change these files;
• Read/Write: Users have access to share folders and its files and are allowed to change files and save changes.

Permissions are given to individual users or user groups (Figure 3.24). Users groups are defined in IPBrick.I » Group Management.

For example, in order to create a share folder for users belonging to a commercial department you have to do the following steps:

• Create group "Dept_Financeiro", in Group Management and add the users of this department to the group.
• Create an area called "Financeiro" in Work Areas » Group Work Areas.
• Give read and write permissions to the group "Dept_Financeiro". The other groups have either reading permissions or no access to this area.

$\Rightarrow$ Note: When defining user group permissions any change in the General group leads to changes for all the other groups. This happens because all users introduced in IPBrick are part of General group.

Figure 3.23: Work Areas - Group - Management

Figure 3.24: Work Areas - Group - Users Access

$\Rightarrow$ Note: A deleted share is no more available for users. All files in this share are moved to an administrative share called BackupX (X representing the number of the work area where the share was created, 1 or 2) that you find in the same Work Area. Only useres belonging to the IPBrick Administrators group have access to this administrative folder. You can access this share from a Windows station. Therefore you have to do the following steps:

• Press the keys [Win]+[R] at the same time
• Write \\ipbrick\backup1 and press "OK" (share that exist in Workarea 1)

All files and folders deleted in these administrative share are definitively deleted in IPBrick.