Secure Shares
Instead of just communicating the most secure sharing procedure to your users, administrators can configure special settings to ensure a more secure environment when users are sharing files.
Administrators can require users to create all public shares with a password for an extra layer of security.
- Users will not be able to disable the use of passwords.
- This provides an extra layer of security for public shares.
To require a password for shares:
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For security reasons, you may want shares to have a randomly-generated name that is created by default.
- Randomly-generated names are more difficult for attackers to guess
- Randomly-generated names do not expose user names or a description of the data which are commonly used in share names
This is how the randomly-generated name looks in the User Portal when creating a share:
As an administrator, you can prevent users from changing the auto-generated share names for security purposes.
To prevent name changes for shares:
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To protect Share links, you can hide the option in the User Portal to send the share link in email.
This is where the user has the option to share a link to the file or folder in email on the User Portal:
As an administrator, you can disable the display of the email button to discourage users from sending the share link in email for security purposes.
To hide the option for sending a link to the share in email:
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The ability to limit searches of user accounts by account type to ALL, FULL, GUEST, or EXTERNAL is available in FileCloud Server version 19.1 and later.
As an administrator, you can configure FileCloud to limit how users can search for other user accounts.
By default, when user1 shares a file or folder with user2, then user1 can search for user2's account by the user name or email-id.
- The search results list both exact and partial matches.
However, this is not desirable in certain cases and organizations, as the search results reveal user accounts that exist in the FileCloud system.
Therefore, FileCloud Server allows you to restrict user searches using two search modes:
User Account | User Account Type |
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How to Enable User Account Search Mode | How to Enable User Account-Type Search Mode |
NOTE: You can use both of these search limitations together to create a combination that meets your requirements. For example, you can set the User Account Search Mode to Partial Name/Email Search, and then use the User Account Type search mode to limit the results to only accounts with FULL access. |
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Using a search mode limits account searches for all the users in the FileCloud system.
These settings are seen by a user when they want to share a file or folder with another specific user and need to find that user's email address.
The ability to change how a name is displayed in Sharing details is available in FileCloud Server version 19.1 and later.
To make it clearer which user has shared a file, you can change how a user name is displayed in Sharing details.
How User Names are Defined in FileCloud
In the Admin Portal, when you create a user, you can set 2 different names.
1. User Name
- In the User Portal, by default, FileCloud displays the User Name.
- It may not be clear to users who is sharing the file with them,
especially if User Name includes only abbreviations and numbers. - The User Name cannot be changed after the user has been created.
2. Display Name
- You can have FileCloud use the Display Name as well as the User Name
on the Details tab when showing the share information. - Using the Display Name makes it clearer to users who is sharing the file with them.
- The Display Name can be changed after the user has been created.
Where Your Changes Appear
In the User Portal, the user's name is displayed differently after you change the default display to include the Display Name.
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Shared With Me list |