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Data Sharing and Access Control by Shared Storage Folder
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You may need to share the contents of a storage folder with other users or group
You may need to share the contents of storage folders with other users or group
members to collaborate. For this purpose, Backend.AI provides flexible folder
sharing feature.

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.. image:: no_test_vfolder_in_B.png

Back to User A's account and click the third icon in the Control column on the
Back to User A's account and click the share icon (third icon) in the Control column on the
right of the ``test`` folder. Enter User B's email in the email input field and
click the SHARE button to send a sharing invitation. No actual email is sent,
and invitations are generated through the Backend.AI database. In the case of
Permissions, if you check View, it is shared as read-only, and if you check Edit
together, even write operation is allowed to User B. If you want to share with
together, even writing is allowed to User B. If you want to share with
multiple users, you can also click the + button to enter additional emails.

.. image:: send_vfolder_invitation.png
:width: 350
:align: center

Back to User B's account and visit to the Summary page. At the bottom of the
page, you can see an invitation with the title Invitation arrived. If you don't
see the invitation, go to another page once and then go back to the Summary
Back to User B's account and go to the Summary page. At the bottom of the
page, you can see the invitation arrived. If you don't
see the invitation, go to another page once and then come back to the Summary
page again. Click the ACCEPT button to accept the invitation.

.. image:: invitation_accept.png

Visit the Data & Storage page and check that the ``test`` folder is displayed in
Go to the Data & Storage page and check that the ``test`` folder is displayed in
the list. If you don't see it on the list, try refreshing your browser page.
Since you have accepted the invitation, you can now view the contents of User
A's ``test`` folder in User B account. Compared to the other folders created by
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Let's navigate inside the ``test`` folder by clicking the folder icon in the
Control column of ``test``. You can check the ``hello.txt`` and ``myfolder``
that you checked in the user A's account again. Let's create a compute session
by mounting this storge folder with the user B's account.
that you checked in the User A's account again. Let's create a compute session
by mounting this storge folder with the User B's account.

.. image:: launch_session_with_test_mounted_B.png
:width: 350
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.. note::
Group folders can only be created by administrators. Normal users can only
access the contents of the group folder created by the administrator. Also,
there may be cases where group folder is not allowed depending on the system
access the contents of the group folders created by the administrator. Also,
there may be cases where the group folder is not allowed depending on the system
settings.

First, log in with an administrator account and create a group folder. After
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After confirming that the folder has been created, log in with the user B's
account and check that the group folder just created on the Data & Storage page
is displayed without an invitation procedure! You can see that R (Read Only) is
is displayed without an invitation procedure. You can see that R (Read Only) is
also displayed in the Permission column.

.. image:: group_folder_listed_in_B.png
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