Scan to folder permissions?

[ollyyllo]

Our network attached photocopiers can scan to SMB shares.

I have several 'scan' folders for office staff, teachers and a few individuals on our network shares, these are linked to as buttons on the photocopiers.

 

Should I use unique domain user (ie 'ScanUser') that has only write privilages to those folders to set up the buttons, or is that going to far?

 

How do/would you set it up, or would you just let users create there own buttons using their own credentials?

[hallb15]

We have Konica photocopiers that do the same thing. I setup a Konica user to do exactly what you suggest - Never let users create their own things!

[ITGURU]

We have a generic scan to folder on the network staff shared drive for non-confidential stuff.

For anything confidential, I set up a scan destination on the copier to a folder in their own user space so they only have access.

[KK20]

same as the above. I have a user that only has credentials for the scan folder - nothing else.

[LeMarchand]

We have a "teacher" and an "admin" folder. All appropriate staff have read/write permissions inside the folder, but can't touch the "outside" of the folder as it kept getting dragged somewhere else meaning there was nowhere for the copiers to scan to.

[ollyyllo]

My scan folder is a few subdirectories down on one of the shares

 

If I give write permission on the scans folder and list folder contents permission on the share folder to ScanUser, is that the minimum permissions I would need? or is there a simpler way of doing it?

Edited March 24, 2017 by ollyyllo