Force share without Accept Email

[quietas]

I've been wondering if there is a clean way to create a calendar, doc folder, or whatnot, and as admin share that to all users without them having to click accept or even getting an email.

Basically I want all of my users to have access to a company wide calendar and documents. When I add a new user, I'd also like them to have access.

I know there you can add a user to a distribution list, but will new users get the share automatically or do I have to reshare it to the list. If so, would all the other users get the email also?

[p24t]

I don't know of a way to do that from the GUI, but you can use zmmailbox and mount things however you want.

I script my user creation so I can automatically add shares etc to them.

[quietas]

I don't suppose there are any easy to use dirt simple one line scripts? My boss is not Linux CLI friendly and I am lazy =)

[chauvetp]

The command below will do what you want to. Its only a one line script if the given variables don't change;

zmmailbox -z -m destination-account@zmail.servername createMountpoint /MountName source-account@zmail.servername /SourceFolder

So if you have an account 'admin@zimbra.servername' and you want to share a folder on it named "Stuff" to 'user1@zimbra.servername' (and call it SharedStuff on that account)

zmmailbox -z -m user1@zimbra.servername createMountpoint /SharedStuff admin@zimbra.servername /Stuff

I use it to push a shared address book as part of my account creation scripts.

[p24t]

If you want a script to create users, here's one for you. Run it as the zimbra user, and you need Ruby installed. (sorry, that's what I use)

Just run it, and pass 4 arguments: username, password, first name, last name

#!/usr/bin/ruby

user = ARGV[0]
pass = ARGV[1]
fname = ARGV[2]
lname = ARGV[3]

system "zmprov ca #{user}@domain.com #{pass} givenName #{fname} sn #{lname} displayName '#{fname} #{lname}'"
system "zmmailbox -z -m #{user}@domain.com createMountpoint --color blue --view appointment \"/Company Calendar\" company@domain.com \"/Calendar\""
system "zmmailbox -z -m #{user}@domain.com createMountpoint --color blue --view contact \"/Company Contacts\" company@domain.com \"/Contacts\""
system "zmprov addDistributionListMember company_wide@domain.com #{user}@domain.com"

The first line creates the account, the second mounts a shared calendar, third does a shared contact list, and the last adds it to a distribution list. Obviously tailor it for your setup. I have an account called "company" that handles the shared items. The mounts are called "Company Calendar" etc, and just "Calendar" on the account doing the sharing.

[quietas]

p24t, that looks like that would work well.

I wonder if it might be possible to build that into an admin extension or zimlet? It seems like passing 4 variables entered in boxes would be easy enough. Basically I'm trying to make this process as stupid proof as possible.