Re: active directory

From: Tom Kaminski [MVP] ((A_at_T))
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:02:56 -0400

FWIW, they really need to change the way they work.
Take a look at Windows Server 2003 with Windows SharePoint Services (free
add-on) - it will pretty much do what they want (they can map web folders in
explorer instead of shared drives) and it will also make your life easier to
deploy the app. 

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"dio" <dio@sensoria.pt> wrote in message
news:%235MO88vIEHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I'll try to explain what we want to do.
>
> We are working with a public institution for whom we have developed their
> web site. Now we are studying the possibility to develop their intranet.
> I'll describe how they work and what we want to do.
>
> Each department produces lots of documentation (doc's, xls', pdf's, etc.)
> and stores it on shared folders (or mapped drives) on the server. These
> folders identify a certain kind of information, law documents, internal
> rules, etc.
>
> Each department, depending on its permissions, may access other department
> information.
>
> Because there's a lot of information, they have developed an html page for
> each department to index the contents they have access to.
> Something like this: Law Documents (point to X:\).
>
> So, when the user clicks the link an explorer window opens pointing to
that
> folder, listing its contents, files and other folders.
>
> What we want to develop is an intranet web site that acts as a friendly
> interface to the information. This way the users can have a much better
> experience navigating through folder contents as they do on web sites
> (except when clicking a link to the document itself, a doc file would open
> Word, obviously).
>
> The content of the web pages would be naturally a list of folder and files
> but that's waht they want, they don't want to change the way they work
(this
> means copying files to the corresponding mapped drive).
>
> To do this, we need to show the intranet web pages content (the links to
the
> drives they have access to) based on the user permissions. We have a lot
of
> experience on ASP (none on ADSI but that's nothing that can't be worked
out)
> so it would be great if we could develop the intranet with this tecnology.
>
> Thank you again for your help.
> Dio
>
>
>
> "Ray at <%=sLocation%> [MVP]" <myfirstname at lane34 dot com> wrote in
> message news:%23he5zAvIEHA.964@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "dio" <dio@sensoria.pt> wrote in message
> > news:%23m5Zb7uIEHA.3128@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >
> > >
> > > Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.
> > > Suppose that after a user logs to ADSI, he has access to a series of
> > shared
> > > folders (or mapped as drives) on the server. Can I retrieve this
drives
> he
> > > has access to querying ADSI?
> >
> > Okay, I see what you're saying.  I'm not any ADSI expert by any means,
but
> > it seems to me that what you'd have to do is loop through the shares on
> the
> > server, look at the share permissions, and see if there are any group or
> > username matches in the share permissions for each share to the groups
> that
> > the user is in.  And to be certain, you'd want to check NTFS permissions
> as
> > well.
> >
> > How would you code this?  I'm not sure off the top of my head.  I'd have
> to
> > work on it.  $  ;]
> >
> > What are you trying to do exactly?
> >
> > Ray at work
> >
> >
>
>

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