FTP Multiple Users and Directories Advice

K

kjemison

Hello again... I am looking for a little advice for a project I am working on for a customer. I would like to lay out my thought process and maybe some of you that have more experience would tell me if it is flawed and possibly point out a better way if possible.

Scenario:Contractor is looking for a way to store building plans so his sub contractors can download them when needed.

I suggessted an FTP site - vsftpd software

The contractor has about 5 different projects going at the same time.
The contractor would like to allow some sub contractors to have access to some of the projects and no access to others.

My thoughts were to do as follows:
Create multiple primary directory's on the server.
ie:
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
etc...

Create groups for each project.
Create users for each sub-contractor and place them within their respective group(s)
Assign "group permissions" for specific "Project" directory's.

Ideas?

Thank you in advance
Kell
 
FTP should be able to do this but you might also want to have a look at NFS (Network File Share) or Windows Shared Folders (The SAMBA server for FreeBSD is in ports)

NFS and SAMBA give the administrator a little bit more freedom than FTP but perhaps are a little bit more time consuming to set up.

There is also a good section about NFS in the FreeBSD handbook.
 
Not sure if I want to hang a samba share out on the network... Besides, it would be easier from a user standpoint to just send them a link to click on to open up the FTP site in a browser window.
Any other ideas about this setup?
 
Okay.. I went ahead and set it up the way I described above and all works perfect. Thanks for looking !

Kell
 
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