Project Sharing Server — is it possible to set a password ?

[GatRed]

Hi,

We use the Project sharing server functionality which is very useful to guarantee the consistency of the workflow when several people are working on the same project.

I installed a Docker image on a synology server.

For remote work, I opened the port used by the project sharing server. It works very well.

But for now, no password is required.

 

Is it possible to set a password to access to the folder ?

(within Vectorworks or in another way ? ).

 

@Tolu

 

Edit : for technical reasons, I can’t set a VPN service, which was my first idea.

Edited March 3 by GatRed

[Christiaan]

The answer is no unfortunately. It's designed to work over a local network, even though you can make it work over the net like this, so it wasn't designed with such security in mind.

 

I have asked for such a feature, but that was on the mistaken belief that project sharing server over the net has performance/integrity advantages vs file sync, but it doesn't.

 

Now we just use file sync, but I think there's still a case for password protection of project sharing server, and that use case is your one.

[GatRed]

Mmmh…

Thanks for the crystal clear answer.

For big project, it is a must have ! and would be a great enhancement for Vectorworks.