You can configure Net Folders in Filr to access files in regular document libraries on a SharePoint 2013 server. When a user uploads a file to a SharePoint-configured Filr Net Folder, that file is made available on the SharePoint server as well as to any user or group who has access to the Net Folder in Filr.
SharePoint 2013 contains the following configuration option: Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited. When enabled, this option causes files that are uploaded to SharePoint to be uploaded in the Checked Out state, making them visible only to the person who uploaded the files. This is true regardless of the application that is used to upload (such as SharePoint web portal or One Drive).
This is also true for Filr, however, to ensure that files uploaded to the SharePoint 2013 server via a SharePoint-configured Filr Net Folder are available to all Filr users with appropriate rights to the Net Folder (through synchronization to Filr via the Filr Net Folder Server Proxy User), Filr behaves differently depending on whether the Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited option is enabled on the SharePoint 2013 server.
If Enabled: Filr automatically checks in a minor version of the file so that the file can be seen by the Net Folder Server Proxy User, and therefore is available to Filr users with rights to the Net Folder.
If Disabled: The uploaded file is immediately visible to all users who have rights to the Net Folder.
When synchronizing user access rights information from SharePoint to Filr, consider the following:
User access rights to files and folders within SharePoint are synchronized to Filr only for users who exist in Active Directory. Access rights for users who exist only locally on the SharePoint site are not synchronized to Filr.
SharePoint personal sites are not currently displayed as user Home folders in Filr.
In SharePoint, if a folder has been shared with a specific group and that group does not have access to the parent directory, you must create a separate Net Folder with a relative path to the shared folder and give the group access.
If you create a Net Folder at a higher level, the group cannot access the sub-folder to which they have access because, as dictated by the SharePoint architecture, they are not able to view the parent folder.
For example, suppose Group A has access rights in SharePoint to the following folder: http://sharepoint_site/sites/marketing/productx. Group A does not have access rights to the marketing folder, only to the productx folder. In order for Group A to have access to the productx folder in Filr:
Create a Net Folder Server (as described in Creating and Managing Net Folder Servers
in the Filr 4: Administrative UI Reference) with the following server path:
http://sharepoint_site/sites/marketing
Create a Net Folder (as described in Creating and Modifying Net Folders
in the Filr 4: Administrative UI Reference) with the following relative path:
productx
(Optional) You might also create another Net Folder to the marketing folder, and assign the appropriate set of users access to that folder. (These users would need to have access to this folder in SharePoint.)
Filr allows you to grant users with the ability to re-share items with other users who do not have access by adding them in the Sharing Rights tag
as documented in the Filr 4: Administrative UI Reference.
When re-sharing is enabled, users can share a file or folder and give the users they are sharing with the ability to re-share the file or folder.
IMPORTANT:Because SharePoint does not have this same capability, carefully consider whether you want to allow users to re-share items, because doing so could grant users access to items that they otherwise wouldn’t have within SharePoint.
If your SharePoint server is configured with SSL, you might need to export the SSL certificate from SharePoint and import it into Filr in order for the Net Folder Server to function properly.
After you have exported the SSL certificate and keypair from the SharePoint site, you need to import them into Filr (the certificate and key pair should be in .P12 key pair format):
Go to the Digital Certificates page by clicking Digital Certificates from the Novell Appliance.
Click File > Import > Trusted Certificate. Browse to and select your existing certificate, then click OK.