How to give users shared access to a folder

It's often necessary to give a group of users shared access to a folder. CompleteFTP's very flexible virtual file-system offers many ways to do this. Three such methods are described below.

  1. Step-by-step guide: Allow users to share a folder (Method 1) (All editions)

    Illustrates how to allow multiple users to access a single Windows folder by creating a subfolder under each user's home folder that maps to that Windows folder.

  2. Step-by-step guide: Allow users to share a folder (Method 2) (Standard edition and greater)

    Illustrates how to allow multiple users, with different Windows home folders, to share a common sub-folder. This is done by using a %UserName% macro in the Windows path of the home folder so that, even though they all have the same home folder in the virtual file-system, this folder maps to different Windows folders.

  3. Step-by-step guide: Allow users to share a folder (Method 3) (Professional edition and greater)

    Illustrates how to allow a group of users, who have their own home folder, to share access to a single folder which is not underneath their home folder. This is done by giving full access permissions to the folder to the group that these users belong to.