Chris McDonough wrote:

How does it not work? I enter an URL which would render the index_html method as a "Network Place" and all I get is an error message:

"The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another."

Webfolders doesn't allow setting permissions on folders or files on a share. You'll need to do this through Zope's security interface via a browser. I assumed as much... if I can find a "product" (or other pre-cooked near-solution) for this then that would be great. :-) I suspect the situation is this: you will likely need a need a content management or a fat client or both if you want users to be able to manage security via a "normal" (nothing really normal about it, IMO, but...) Explorer window. I don't absolutely need an "explorer window" - but a drag-n-drop interface is desirable - and Windows it the most likely remote OS. Zope has a completely different security model than either UNIX or Windows, so something needs to map its notion of security to the client's. Plain-old-webfolders won't help here. Fair enough - though I will need to manage this aspect of the solution somehow. I wonder why you don't just use a Windows share here? What does Zope give you that it wouldn't in this case? There are several reasons I don't want to use a windows shared folder... including:

* I need to support access to the web-share through corporate web-proxies which only allow HTTP/HTTPS access to the outside world. * Access to the web-share should be supported even from non-MS platforms. * No need to expose a Windows/SAMBA port to the internet at large (including the myriad security issues that would incur.) * Administration only necessary for users of the portal - no separate system for users of the "web-drive". * No need to install software on remote sites to access a private virtual network. I'm sure there are other advantages too... Steve