Public and Shared Folders

There are public and shared folders in Open-Xchange Server. Public folders are available for all users or user groups. This is determined by the administrator. The access rights can be denied for individual users or user groups. This is useful when access rights are to be granted to a guest who should not be able to see the internal customer information. Shared folders are folders of a user who decided to share them with other users or user groups. When a user carries out an action in a shared folder he does that on behalf of the folder's owner. If a user creates an object in a public folder, he acts on behalf of himself, and the object will be created under his name.

Sharing a folder

You can share your folder with individual users or user groups by right-clicking on it and selecting Properties. In the Properties window, select now the Rights tab.

To add a user or a user group and to give them permissions, click on the Add icon in the User panel section. A dialog box opens where you can select the user or a user group and add them to the existing list. Select an entry from the list and click on Add. Click on OK to accept your selection.

In the panel you can determine what type of rights you want to grant to the added user or user group. Prior to that, activate the desired entry and select the type of rights that the user or the user group should receive. After that, save your selection by clicking on the icon in the Save section.