HFS (File Sharing Server) Upload, Folder Types, Group Seting

The Upload feature only works with real folders.

Step-by-step

First, define a real folder. To do this:

• Add a folder.
• Choose real folder.
• You should now see a RED folder in your virtual file system, inside HFS.
• Right click on this folder.
• Set Upload → upload for accounts → anyone

Now anyone who has access to your HFS server can upload files to you.

Restrict

There are many ways to restrict access to upload. Here are some

Restrict access to the folder

Right-click on the folder → restrict access → select accounts.

Restrict the upload itself

In the step-by-step procedure above, don't click on anyone but select only the accounts you wish to allow.

Hide the folder

Right-click on the folder → hide. Now no-one can see your folder, so only people who know the folder is there can access it by typing the correct address.

What is a real/virtual folder

The VFS in HFS has both virtual folders and real folders. Sometimes it may be irrelevant, but at other times you'd better pay attention to which you choose.

Virtual folders are yellow, real folders are red.

Real folders

A real folder is a link to a folder on your disk, and shows the current (real-time) content of your disk. Its behavior is very near to what you usually find in FTP server software. But it is has some virtuality, even if not as much as the virtual folder. I mean, the real folder is not necessarily the same as the folder on your disk. There are many aspects of the folder that you can change virtually. You can rename it (but not the files within it), add files, hide files, etc.

Virtual folders

A virtual folder only shows items you can see in the VFS. When you add a virtual folder based on a folder on your disk, the disk's contents are copied to the VFS. From now on, the content is seperated from the disk; it is virtualized. If a file is subsequently added or removed on the disk, the VFS won't be updated to reflect those changes. Its behavior is very near to what you usually find in CD burning software.

That's about handling the VFS from HFS window. If you delete a file from the browser, the file is deleted on disk.

In the future

In the not-so-far future, this difference between folders will disappear. You will be able to do everything with a (normal) folder.

Tricks

• Sometimes you need to take control over a sub-folder B of a real folders A. Problem is: you can't directly, because A won't expand in the VFS.
  Solution is: simply manually add B (as real folder) under A. Now you should get all the control you need over it.

In HFS you won't find groups actually, but account linking. It's a much more powerful way, but you may need to spend some minutes to get used to them.

Account linking is like: this account has also the permissions of another. e.g. joe has also powers fred have.

Get groups working

You can get same functioning of group with account linking. The first thing to understand is that to create a group you must create an account.

Follow these steps

• create an account called A
• mark the group option
• then you go to every account you want to be part of the A group, and fill the linked field with A.
• done!

 

More on them

If a group has the "no limits" enabled, than every account linking the group has the "no limits".

This is true also for the redirection field.

Go hardcore

It's not always obvious how all this will be working. The logic can be different in some case, so lets see in details.

You can link accounts/groups in any way, like this chart will show you

What's the result of this mess?

User1 will have any permission you set to it itself, more, any permission of group5, group3, group2 and group1.

User2 will get its own stuff and will inherit the permissions of group4, group2 and group1.

Just remember that linking is one way. E.g. group3 inherits from group2, but group2 is inheriting nothing.