[support] User File Space?

[Jiann-Ming Su]

On 12/15/05, Earnest Berry <earnest.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jiann-Ming,
>
> Yes, drupal can do this. There is a setting in the admin section that allows
> for 'private' downloads, in which they can't just know the path to download
> it. Druplicate file names are taken care of. Each file has a 'title', which
> can be the same, however, the actual stored name is unique. The title is
> automatically defaulted to the unique name, but the user can change the
> 'title' of the file. Hope this answer helps. Oh, and of course, drupal has
> user/password capability, etc.
>

I'm to the point of my website development with Drupal where I need to
implement user file space, where users can upload and download files,
but only view files that they have permissions to.  I've looked at the
filemanager module (http://drupal.org/project/filemanager) and the
seperate attachment module (http://drupal.org/node/10245).  The
filemanager module seems to be what I need.  And, even though the
attachment module uses it, it doesn't seem to employ the public and
private file feature of the filemanager module.

I've also tried creating a flexinode and adding the "user group"
attribute, but that doesn't seem to work as expected.

I also found this post (http://drupal.org/node/25623) asking the same
question.  Am I missing something easy with Drupal file protection?

>  - Souvent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Jiann-Ming Su
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:41 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] User File Space?
>
> I'm helping a friend evaluate moving his website off of Windows/ASP to
> Linux/PHP.  One of this functional requirements is as follows:
>
> THere is admin functionality that allows me to set up accounts
> (with passwords) that users can access to upload and download files (users
> have no access to each others files). files should be well protected (cant
> download just by knowing the location/name. need some mechanism to deal with
> duplicate file names (current site gives uploaded files a unique name if
> duplicate is found ... user only sees the name he typed in though).
>
> Can Drupal do this?  If so, where can I find the documentation on how
> to configure Drupal to do this?  Thanks for any help.
> --
> Jiann-Ming Su
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Jiann-Ming Su
"I have to decide between two equally frightening options.
 If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman
"The system's broke, Hank.  The election baby has peed in
the bath water.  You got to throw 'em both out."  --Dale Gribble