I am trying to find out the best way to set up a shared drive for a company which has 50+ users in 3 office locations in different cities.
They basically need a drive with a common folder to store company documents (eg. /home/company-docs/) plus a personal folder for each user (eg. /home/username/mydocs/). They will mainly access the drive from Windows 7 machines and few Ubuntu machines.
They cannot use an external application such as Dropbox, Google Drive and so on (for regulatory and compliance reasons).
I am currently using Ubuntu server 14.04 with ProFTPD, and the machines access the server drive using WinSCP or Filezilla. For permissions I am using ACL.
The tricky part is the folder structure so everyone can see the common folder (/home/company-docs) and the personal folder (/home/username/mydocs) in their home directory.
Using ProFTPD I can chroot jail the users to their home directory and there mydocs/ folder is created (using skel).
But how can I give them access to the company folder which is located outside their home folder (path is /home/company-docs)???
My first option is to mount /home/company-docs/ in the user home:
mount --bind /home/company-docs/ /home/user_name/company-docs
And then make this configuration permanent by editing /etc/fstab:
/var/www/dev /home/user_name/www_dev none bind 0 0
But the above solution works for just 1 particular user, how can I make this work for every user in the system and make it permanent for every user? and also how to set it up automatically when a new user is created?
Please let me know if you have any idea on how to accomplish this or any other better way you may think on doing it.
