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Access problem to document library

alberto — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:58:37 GMT

Hello,I'm giving share a try and I'm finding a problem.I have created a site and I invited some users. Two of the users do not have a problem accessing the site, uploading files and so on. However, there is another user that, even though he can participate in discussions, read the wiki. etc, he gets

Re: Access problem to document library

vamsi_reddy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:10:57 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem. Does anyone have a solution to this issue?

Thanks,
Vamsi

Re: Access problem to document library

alberto — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:30:53 GMT

Update.
Strangely enough, the user can upload documents but he can not access them afterwards.

Re: Access problem to document library

mikeh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:37:53 GMT

How were these users created? Also, if you use the Explorer interface (at /alfresco) is there anything strange in the permissions for the Site or documentLibrary spaces?

thanks,
Mike

Re: Access problem to document library

alberto — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:36:44 GMT

Users were created from web client. Afterwards, they were invited from share.
Permissions are set as contributors in share. Everyone has a coautor role in sites (which is the default I believe)
If you log in into the web client with the problematic user you can access the files in the sites/nameOfSite/documentLibrary
The only difference with respect to a base setup is that share is intalled in a different machine than alfresco. However, the other two users can access the documents. And, in fact, the problematic user can upload documents but he gets the above error when trying to browse through the library.

Re: Access problem to document library

alberto — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:18:15 GMT

I've found the problem
We had put in the library a couple of links to files in the repository. We did this by using the web client (we know is not the correct way but we are testing). The main reason to take this route is to not have certain files repeating all over the repository. For example, when we have specifications for a material that is present in different projects it makes no sense to copy it every time. Thus, we put two pdf's as links. The problem is that they reside in a directory for which this particular user has no rights. So, it makes sense that he could not see the files (this is what happened in the wed client), what I'm not so sure is that it makes sense to have an error instead of just not seeing the file. The problem with the actual approach is that the user can not even access the files he is entitle to. Just IMHO.