Very Confused About Permissions

[carnold]

Community 4.2.0c fresh install. Created admin when installing and can login with admin. I then created a site and am attempting to invite new users but do not see the invite button. I created a user in the alfresco webapp and added this user as a manager. Login as this user to the share webapp, click members and this new user is not listed. I do see a "join" button top right and when i click that it adds the user as a consumer.

Basocally, what i am trying to do is create sites and users for specific sites in such a manner that some users see all sites and files and other users see only specific sites and files. Here is the "layout":
-Paradix enterprises (site)
–financials (folder only certain users can access)
–contracts (folder all users can access and modify files)
–projects (folder all users can access and modify files)
-Fantastic SAMs (site)
–financials (folder only certain users can access)
–some folder (users can access and modify)
–more folders (…………,)

-Apex Development (site)
–same folder structure as above

-Paradix Corp (site)
–same folder structure as above

And we need certain paradix enterprises users to be able to access all folders/files from fantastic SAMs, apex development and paradix corp but no user access from fantastic SAMs, apex development and paradix corp to paradix ent.

I cant seem to get even the first site with users going? What am i doing wrong?

[mikehchase]

Perhaps I can help.
You mentioned fresh install, if you have not added the email information to the Global properties file, please do so.
I know how to setup SMTP for sending emails form Alfresco, and can provide more info if you want.
At our library we did pretty much want you are trying to do.
How we did it was with groups and role based security.
I created Groups named for the different sites, and Groups for the site as a Site Admin (so two Groups per site).
I then created the sites, and added the Groups (for the site) and assigned privileges to the groups.
I then created users, and in the user setup, added the appropriate groups to each user.
So no emails, no joining, just good to go when they login.
The trick is rembering to add the correct groups to each user, and rember a single user can have many groups.
Does this help? If you want more on what or how we did it, just ask.
Good Luck,
Mike Chase