file sharing for new biz

[gregfrey]

Please forgive me if this is not the right place to find the info I'm looking for. I'm starting a business and we need to share files. The files are mostly Excel, Word, Access, etc, but also some larger media files as well. We need to share these files with partners and clients at various locations around the country. We need a central server where the admins can create folders that have assignable permissions. We tried setting up a vpn (Hamachi by Logmein), but it's too slow. And Google Groups doesn't allow the creation of multiple folders or sub folders.

Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Greg Frey

[ckrit]

Google docs does ok at that sort of thing. Assignable permissions, and even the possibility of several users working on the same file at once, if the format is supported. Our company has been using it since early this year, and we're quite happy with it.

Try registering for google apps and have a look at it.

[gregfrey]

yep, thanks, but Google Docs doesn't allow anything other than doc files and has a 10mb/file limit. Not right for our situation.

[Cabalo]

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You need a sharepoint server. It's the definition of what you've been looking for.
Take a peak http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pages/Default.aspx

Try the 2010 Beta, it's free ;)

[ckrit]

yep, thanks, but Google Docs doesn't allow anything other than doc files and has a 10mb/file limit. Not right for our situation.

We've also got spreadsheets uploaded, most likely excels. But we don't use that much so can't say how well it works.

See: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=50092 for supported formats and http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=37603 for size limits.

[greenoro0]

thanks for this helpful information friends