Collaborative storage is a shared storage area where a group of people in an organization can collaborate by sharing files. For example, a cross-functional project team in an organization might need a collaborative storage area where all members could access and submit project files.
Novell Storage Manager lets you easily create collaborative storage areas through collaborative storage policies that you can assign to Group objects or to an organizational unit (also known as a container). You can structure the collaborative storage in one of two ways:
Creating a single project folder where all project members have access and have the same rights.
Creating a project folder with a specified owner. The project folder has subfolders for each of the members of the group. This configuration is done through Dynamic Template Processing. For more information on Dynamic Template Processing, see Setting Group Policy Dynamic Template Processing.
Novell Storage Manager works with eDirectory to ensure that only members of the Group object have access to collaborative storage. As new members are added to the group, they are automatically granted access to the collaborative storage. As members are removed, they are denied access, but the files that they submitted to the collaborative storage folder remain.
In this chapter, you will learn how to create collaborative storage policies. These include:
Group-based collaborative policies
Container-based collaborative policies
Section 7.1, Creating Collaborative Storage Objects in eDirectory
Section 7.2, Understanding Collaborative Storage Template Folders
Section 7.3, Determining How You Want to Structure Your Collaborative Storage
Section 7.5, Setting Up Security for a Collaborative Storage Template
Section 7.8, Creating a Container Collaborative Storage Policy