Specifying User Access Privileges for a Virtual Folder
You can specify access privileges to a virtual folder by first selecting the users who can access the folder and then specifying the permissions for the actions each user can perform in the folder.
To specify user access privileges to a virtual folder
1. In My webMethods: Administration > Integration > Managed File Transfer > Virtual Folder Management.
3. Select the virtual folder in the virtual folder list. The folder details appear on the right side of the page.
4. Click the arrow to the left of User Access to view the user access options.
5. Click the 
button above the list of users. 6. If the user you want to access the folder already exists in the system directory, select Search for Existing Users and do the following:
a. Type the first few letters of the user’s first name, last name, or user name in the search box and then click Search.
b. In the search results, select the check box next to the user that you want to add.
d. Click Add Existing Users. You can add more users as needed.
7. If the user you want to access the folder does not already exist in the system directory, select Create a New User and do the following:
a. Enter the user’s user ID, first name, last name, and email address in the respective boxes.
b. Click the arrow to the left of Advanced Settings and specify password and port settings for the user as desired. For more information, see Creating a New User. c. Click Add New User to Selection. You can add more users as needed.
Note: When you create a new user in this way, the user account is created in the system directory but not in any externally configured directory services such as LDAP.
8. When you are done adding users, click OK.
9. In the User Access section, select the user whose permissions you want to specify.
10. Select the check box next to each permission you want to grant to the user (for example, view the contents of the folder, download files to the folder, create subfolders within the folder).
Note: If the folder does not have a physical location, the Upload and Create Folder permissions are not applicable.
11. In the Quota Limit box, specify the total amount of space, in megabytes or gigabytes, to make available to this user for file transfers in this virtual folder. Then, select MB or GB from the list. If the user exceeds this limit, ActiveTransfer Server denies the user from any further file transfer activity until the user frees up space by deleting files he or she has previously uploaded or downloaded in this folder.
Note: If you have assigned a user access privileges to only one virtual folder in the VFS, the contents of the folder will be directly shown to the user. ActiveTransfer Server shows the folders in the VFS only if the user has access privileges to more than one folder. If you want the user to see a root folder when the user logs in, you must create such a folder inside the ActiveTransfer Server VFS.
12. Click Save.