[PLUG] Group permissions for tech-adverse personnel

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 16:41, Paul wrote:
> Not everyone is as goofy-confident as myself when 
> it comes to writing e-mail with questionable value to such a large group 
> of PLUG quality people.

But I have few qualms about asking dumb questions of people with
considerable expertise.

I may be asking the wrong questions.  That is, the solution to this
problem may involve a different, more simple approach.

A number of colleagues in larger offices are setting up a case
management system called Time Matters in a Samba environment.  Time
Matters is windows software.  Their windows only product uses MS SQL
Server or the free disabled version (I forget what MS calls it) for the
database back end.  A year or so ago, the developer of Time Matters
entered into a joint venture with Toshiba to sell a Toshiba server
pre-loaded with Red Hat 7.2/Postgre/Samba and a ported Time Matters
server that replaces the Microsoft DB with Postgre over Samba.  The
clients are still windows.

In addition to storing traditional data fields, Time Matters
incorporates Document Management into the system.  When the documents
are on the Samba server, they are running into permission problems with
shared files.

Now the people using this are not technically inclined, so the question
is how is the best way for these tech-adverse people to manage
permissions without having to think hard about it?
-- 
Arthur S. Alexion <arthur@alexion.com>
Arthur S. Alexion LLC

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