Hi Dan,

This seems more a question for the developer forum than this one as you are definitely talking about custom development, not how to use an existing feature.

The shared files module is designed for sharing files securly by roles with optional versioning. The files are stored on disk using guids for the name and .config for the extension which keeps them secure from normal http requests. Your question sounds like you intend the documents to be pages in the site (maybe I'm not understanding) but its not desinged for that.

There is nothing already built that allows a desktop client to post files except for the browser so if you need something like that you will have to build both the client side and server side parts so if its programatically possible to do what you want then you can do it.

Hope it helps,

Joe

In a multi site installation site specific files are stored on disk under webroot/Data/Sites/[SiteID]/

beneath this folder are folders for specific things including shared files, skins, gallery images etc, so there is file system isolation between sites. In the case of shared files the friendly name of the file and other attributes are stored in the db.

When a new site is created, its initial skins come from webroot/Data/skins and are copied to webroot/Data/Sites/[SiteID]/skins, this way any custom site specific skins are not shared unless they are put in the /Data/skins folder on purpose.

Hope it helps,

Joe