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Alternative to Shared Folders ?
Hello everyone,
My company is planning to abolish the Shared Folders soon (locally on the workstations.) but we also have to implement an alternative for our emplyees who still need to share data. (Since I'm working for a computer game company, sometime our users must share BIG files.)
Currently all of our 1000 employees have at least 120G of HD in their workstations, they also have 2G available on their home folders but most of the time it's not enough to share what they have to...
Any recommendations for an alternative and secure solution ?
Thx in advance.
Patrick
My company is planning to abolish the Shared Folders soon (locally on the workstations.) but we also have to implement an alternative for our emplyees who still need to share data. (Since I'm working for a computer game company, sometime our users must share BIG files.)
Currently all of our 1000 employees have at least 120G of HD in their workstations, they also have 2G available on their home folders but most of the time it's not enough to share what they have to...
Any recommendations for an alternative and secure solution ?
Thx in advance.
Patrick
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As far as the trading illegal software... with an ftp server or SAN you can monitor who put what where and at what time they removed it, and who accessed it. MP3's and avi's etc... you can have a script look for unacceptable extensions in the logs, some AV programs let you block certain file ext's also.
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Thx a lot guys for your inputs, we should definitively go with the SAN option. Now we'll see how much we can invest :)
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We're also sure that they can survive without shared folders, it's more that we don't want to change too drastically their 'culture' and that's why we want to provide them a secured alternative. Maybe a NAS with shared folders for all the users so they can share files with each other ? Also, we don't want them to trade illegal softwares or MP3s/Movies.
Patrick