Can you recommend vpn server with a management gui to customize folder access (read,write,hidden) on a per user basis?

for example
user x can only see folder y
user y can edit folder x
user z can only upload to an empty directory
user a can see x,y,z but only write z

(windows or linux, doesn't matter) thanks

VPN is really just an extension of your network, so are your really talking about a file server or something on that extended LAN, something like samba?

I guess I'm a bit unclear on exactly what you mean.

A good example is serve-u ftp server (I'm not sure if theres a linux version).

You configure what privileges users get for each folder (read/write).

Though a vpn is an extension of the network, I want users to have access to "their" network share, not the whole drive.

The application, onenote, is windows based and requires a network share to properly sync, we've been using hamachi vpn to be able to do this over the internet.

I intend on using this application more and more and want to get away from having to personally host my notebooks.

I've looked at a couple of nas's /w embedded linux & mini-servers but still didn't nail how I'm going to accomplish sharing out only parts of the drive since each collab group will probably only need a max of 20 - 50megs. Not to mention I will have personal things on the nas also.

I read some forum posts where people have managed to put openSSH & openVPN on their Qnap NAS, but these are ipkg/ARM versions and believe they aren't menu driven. Not to mention I doubt the possibilities of being able to chroot SSH users will work since nobody on the qnap forum can yet confirm they have.

Also, I read that ssh fileshares are less stable then vpn fileshares not to mention that ssh also was mainly purposed for temporary/small transfers.

+ I'm not looking for usb router solutions. Just software, a server software either linux or windows.

If its linux I'll check the ipkg software list to see if its available and look further into it.

If the software that tends to be the most promising is available in windows or requires more power I'll probably get an asus eee box or build a mini-box.

Thanks for the samba suggestion, BTW, here is a list of programs titled samba in ipkg software list:
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Package: samba2
Version: 2.2.12-1
Conflicts: samba
Suggests: xinetd
Architecture: arm
Maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
Size: 7080201
Filename: samba2_2.2.12-1_arm.ipk
Source: http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stabl...-2.2.12.tar.gz
Description: Lightweight Samba suite provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.


Package: samba3-dev
Version: 3.2.4-1
Depends: samba
Section: net
Architecture: arm
Maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
MD5Sum: 2604b6244826f87dde7bec52593640c8
Size: 27941
Filename: samba3-dev_3.2.4-1_arm.ipk
Source: http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stabl...a-3.2.4.tar.gz
Description: development files for samba3


Package: samba3-swat
Version: 3.2.4-1
Depends: samba, xinetd
Section: net
Architecture: arm
Maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
MD5Sum: d31e956957b101397d3ed93de87f654e
Size: 8921981
Filename: samba3-swat_3.2.4-1_arm.ipk
Source: http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stabl...a-3.2.4.tar.gz
Description: the Samba Web Admin Tool for samba3


Package: samba
Version: 3.2.4-1
Depends: popt, readline , openldap-libs
Conflicts: samba2
Suggests: cups
Section: net
Architecture: arm
Maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
MD5Sum: 7ae21f3bd29737a4479b305524161223
Size: 23747698
Filename: samba_3.2.4-1_arm.ipk
Source: http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stabl...a-3.2.4.tar.gz
Description: Samba suite provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.


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If you can't control the setup with a gui, I'd exclude this option. Thanks again

Swat is a web-like front end for samba, samba2 looks like the old version, so if I were you, I'd look at playing with samba and samba3-swat.

Have a look at the docs at www.samba.org while you are about it. I know you want a gui front end, but they'll give you a great idea of what you can do, even if you decide to do it via swat.

In the qnap forum it seems samba installs on the nas's have had quite a bit of performance issues. Thanks for the suggestion, it seems you can have allot of control and flexibility over the shares with samba. It seems the only other option would be chrooting ssh users to lock them into their home directory.

Are you hooking up linux machines? You could always use NFS.