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On Disorganized Shares
Posted by Elissa on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 @ 06:03 PM
Another word on share disorganization. How bad is yours, really? Do your users exacerbate it, as in, “yeah, I created that folder with my name on it. What’s a home directory?”
This is how people lose documents, and how duplicate files proliferate across your network. This is how backups slow down, and why recovering backed-up files is difficult. So how do you force users to comply with the organizational system you set up?
One way is to enable access-based enumeration so that end-users see only the shares that they are allowed to access. This simplifies their view and may prevent them from creating new folders when they can’t find what they want.
Another way is to create user- or department-specific views of the shares on your network. You can do this by using a file virtualization product to virtualize file access. Then, you can create numerous hierarchical share arrangements, and give users access to their own unique arrangements. As with access-based enumeration, you can show users select shares, and hide the rest.
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