Re: active directory
From: dio (dio_at_sensoria.pt)
Date: 04/16/04
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:38:15 +0100
Well, yes, I have already thought about that!
The question is, they won't do it now. A lot of people is used to that kind
of workflow, it won't be easy to change!
Thank you once again.
Dionísio
"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" <tomk (A@T) mvps (D.O.T) org> wrote in message
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> 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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