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Because the iFolder client is integrated into the operating environment, users can work with iFolders
directly in a file manager or in the My iFolders window. Within the iFolder, users can set up any
subdirectory structure that suits their personal or corporate work habits. The subdirectory structure is
constant across all member iFolders. Each workstation can specify a different parent directory for
the shared iFolder.
1.4.8 iFolder Access Rights
The iFolder client provides four levels of access for members of an iFolder:
Owner: Only one user serves as the owner. This is typically the user who created the iFolder.
The owner or an iFolder Administrator can transfer ownership status from the owner to another
user.
The owner of an iFolder has the Full Control right. This user has Read/Write access to the
iFolder, manages membership and access rights for member users, and can remove the Full
Control right for any member. With an enterprise server, the disk space used by the owner's
iFolders count against the owner's user disk quotas on the enterprise server.
If a user is deleted from the iFolder system, the iFolders owned by the user are orphaned.
Orphaned iFolders are assigned temporarily to the iFolder Admin user, who becomes the owner
of the iFolder. Membership and synchronization continues while the iFolder Admin user
determines whether an orphaned iFolder should be deleted or assigned to a new owner.
Full Control: A member of the shared iFolder, with the Full Control access right. The user
with the Full Control right has Read/Write access to the iFolder and manages membership and
access rights for all users except the owner.
Read/Write: A member of the shared iFolder, with the Read/Write access right to directories
and files in the iFolder.
Read Only: A member of the shared iFolder, with the Read Only access right to directories
and files in the iFolder. This member can copy an iFolder file to another location and modify it
outside the iFolder.
When used with an enterprise server account, the server hosts every iFolder created for that account.
Users create an iFolder and the enterprise server makes it available to the specified list of users. A
user can have a separate account on each enterprise server. A user's level of membership in each
shared iFolder can differ.
1.4.9 Account Setup for Enterprise Servers
The iFolder client allows you to set up multiple accounts, with one each allowed per enterprise
server. Users specify the server address, username, and password to uniquely identify an account.
On his or her computer, a user sets up accounts while logged in as the local identity he or she plans
to use to access that account and its iFolders. Under the local login, the user can set up multiple
iFolder accounts, but each account must belong to a different iFolder enterprise server.
1.4.10 Access Authentication
Whenever iFolder connects to an enterprise server to synchronize files, it connects with HTTP
BASIC and SSL connections to the server, and the server authenticates the user against the LDAP
directory service.
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