Lawyer wants to share documents (Word, Excel) with multiple clients. Thus, the lawyer (admin) needs the ability to upload/download files for multiple client "accounts". The client only needs to download/upload files associated with their account.

In addition, we would need a "stamp" of the filename, show uploaded (downloaded) it, file size, file type, description, etc.

Zope can take care of most of that with nothing more than a few scripts, mostly for playing with permissions. Even that wouldn't be needed if you were comfortable with everyone accessing the ZMI (i.e. only doing it yourself.) The only interesting (read: non-trivial) thing will be the activity monitoring. If you don't ever pack, I suppose you could just inspect the history. Since that's not really an option, you'll have to either recreate that or suck it out and save it. Easiest is probably to only allow upload and download through a script that does the recording of whatever parameters you like. And since I'm in implementation suggestion mode, you can either have one big area for files and simply change the permissions of who gets to see what, or have various secured "home" folders. If you want a document to commonly go into several of these in a transaction (which is one reading of the above), you'll probably want your upload script to copy to both. If you only want to be able to deal with multiple spaces, well, nevermind. Also look into Plone/CMF. You can make document types other than "File" and it already has the concept of user spaces. (It'll even generate them on user creation.) Plus it has a nice (non-ZMI) interface for your document-management tasks. --jcc