You want a "drop" folder:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/86987829-3f74-412f-abb8-c8b22b07257d1033.mspx?mfr=true

-- Durf

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I need some alternatives to a specific process.  The process in question
> is timesheets.  Our timesheets are Excel spreadsheets, which are processed
> as follows:
>
> 1)  All timesheets are located in the user's home folder.  At the end of
> the month, the user goes in, updates for the current month, copies a .jpg of
> their signature onto the current month's sheet, and forwards the timesheet
> to their manager via e-mail attachment.
> 2)  The manager opens the timesheets for their employees, verifies it, and
> copies a .jpg of their signature onto the current month's sheet, and
> forwards the timesheets to a specific admin employee, via e-mail
> attachments.
> 3)  The admin employee takes the attachments, and copies them into
> a folder on a server, from which the timesheets are then "processed" and
> sent to another agency, to be further processed for paycheck issuance.
>
>
> My question to my boss, is why can't we just have the managers move the
> timesheets for their employees into the folder on the server, instead of
> e-mailing them a second time.  In fact, we could have all processing done
> within that folder to begin with, without having to e-mail the files
> anywhere.
>
> The issue that comes up, is how to prevent someone from another department
> from opening someone else's timesheet.  The big concern there is that the
> timesheets not only contain .jpgs of people's signatures, but also contain
> SSNs.
>
> My thought is to set permissions on the folder so that people can place
> files there, but not be able to open them once they are there.  Is that
> possible with NTFS rights?  I will do research on it, but I'm hoping that
> someone has already run into this type of issue and has an answer already.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Heaton
> AISA
> Employment Training Panel
> 1100 J Street, 4th Floor
> Sacramento, CA  95814
> (916) 327-5276
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>


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