It would actually be a relatively simple matter to setup groups in the Active Directory, then create shares on servers with group-specific permissions, and run a boot script to mount them. If all they're doing is sharing files, SharePoint is probably overkill. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, <<a href="mailto:mcr@simtone.net">mcr@simtone.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> >>>>> "Darryl" == Darryl Moore <<a href="mailto:darryl@moores.ca">darryl@moores.ca</a>> writes: Darryl> I don't know a lot about MS networks. One of the things I Darryl> was surprised to hear is that everybody has to ask the IT Darryl> department to set up folders so they can share documents, Darryl> and that permissions for these folders are set up on a user Darryl> by user basis. There does not appear to be any concept of Darryl> groups like in Linux. At the NTFS/Microsoft-Sharing level, there are groups and there are also extended ACLs that go way beyond what Linux has. (Although ext3 and ext4 has some of this, not commonly enabled) Sharepoint is not the same thing though. My experience is that MS is in fact very powerful, but since the people running it are lowest-bidders, they don't know how to set things up. Darryl> The other thing she told me was that they would soon be Darryl> roling out a SharePoint server which is suppose to be the Darryl> holy grail and will eleviate all their issues. What I Darryl> understand about Sharepoint is that it is basically a fancy Darryl> version control system, and is very expensive. Yes, that's the case. Very $$$$, and doesn't really help often: it's too complex for most users. -- Michael Richardson <<a href="mailto:mcr@simtone.net">mcr@simtone.net</a>> Director -- Consumer Desktop Development, Simtone Corporation, Ottawa, Canada Personal: <a href="http://www.sandelman.ca/mcr/" target="_blank">http://www.sandelman.ca/mcr/</a> SIMtone Corporation fundamentally transforms computing into simple, secure, and very low-cost network-provisioned services pervasively accessible by everyone. Learn more at <a href="http://www.simtone.net" target="_blank">www.simtone.net</a> and <a href="http://www.SIMtoneVDU.com" target="_blank">www.SIMtoneVDU.com</a> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>