Force shared folders with several users

[nahmsath]

Hi there,

I'm back again with zimbra folders sharing.
The following is supposed to share the Calendar folder with the user "other"

zmmailbox -z -m myaccount@example.com mfg /Calendar account other@example.com rwidx

This time i want to force shared folders with several users. How can i do that?
Many thanks.

[bdial]

either execute that command several times, once for each user who needs to see the calendar, or setup a distribution list containing the people you want to share that with and have the calendar shared to that distribution list.

[nahmsath]

Thank u Bdial...

FOr the distribution, it's not working.
I have a distributioin list of tens users called "distrib".
When i access the shared folder properties, it shows "distrib" as the user with whom the folder is shared. But when i connect with one of the distrib list user, no way to see any shared folder!!

Do i end up writing a batch script repeating the same command with all of my users?

[bdial]

did you modify the command to say group distrib@example.com instead of account distrib@example.com ?

What does the output of the following command say?

zmmailbox -z -m myaccount@example.com gfg /Calendar

[nahmsath]

It says:

Permissions Type Display
----------- ------ -------
rwidx group distrib@example.com

But i've used "account" instead of "group". Changing back to "group" did'nt fix the pb.
Is there something i'm missing??

Thanks bdial

[bdial]

what happens if you try to do the mount via command line. Pick a user that is in the distribution list distrib@example.com.

zmmailbox -z -m person@example.com cm /Test myaccount@example.com /Calendar

[nahmsath]

The mount is working perfectly with single user! that user can access the shared folder.

So, maybe the right question should be: how to mount a shared folder for a group of user?

Thanks bdial!

[bdial]

that you would have to do for every user in the distribution list manually.

[nahmsath]

Humm... tedious task though!
Will try to see how to write a bash script which will get a list of users as input file and automagically mount shared folders for them...

Will keep you posted...

[alexkelly]

I have been using the following script to create a calendar hierarchy of "others" calendars, so you will get /Others/group/user1, /Others/group/user2, etc. Perhaps it will help.

#!/bin/bash
domain="yourdomain.com"
GROUPFILE="groupfile"
USERFILE="userstoadd"
for x in `cat $GROUPFILE`
do
	GRP=`echo $x|cut -d: -f1`
	USR=`echo $x|cut -d: -f2`
	echo "sm $USR"
	for y in `cat $USERFILE`
	do
		echo "mfg /Calendar account $y@$domain rwidx"
	done
done

for a in `cat $USERFILE`
do
	echo "sm $a"
	echo "cf -V appointment /Others"
	for b in `cat $GROUPFILE`
	do
		GRP=`echo $b|cut -d: -f1`
		COL=`echo $b|cut -d: -f3`
		echo "cf -c $COL -V appointment /Others/$GRP"
	done
	for c in `cat $GROUPFILE`
	do
		GRP=`echo $c|cut -d: -f1`
	        USR=`echo $c|cut -d: -f2`
		COL=`echo $c|cut -d: -f3`
		echo "cm -c $COL -V appointment /Others/$GRP/$USR $USR@$domain /Calendar"
	done
done

The file that gets in $USERFILE is simply a list of usernames to which you wish to create the "others" calendar group. The $GROUPFILE is a colon-delimited file that looks like

username:groupheading:color

So if you had "bob:accounting:red", you would get an /Others/accounting/bob calendar that was shared from bob@domain.com.

When you run the script, it is best to redirect the output to a file, and then:

zmmailbox -z < redirectedfile

This was a hack I threw together one weekend to accomplish a mass calendar sharing hierarchy that needed setup in our environment. It has worked for me, but it sort of a pain to maintain, if someone gets added to the calendar or someone changes departments. I have another script that is basically the same as this with the addition of a "rf /others" at the beginning so it goes through and just removes the "other" and then create the whole hierarchy over again.