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ishowu - Oct 26, 2006 - 3:02 am

When trying to use final cut pro projects over a network and saving them directly to a network disk, the file permissions are set to "read only".

Instead of "read/write". We need to access and save the project files from different MACs directly on the network drive.

Does anyone have a solution for this kind of permission problem?

kind regards, Kevin

stottm - Oct 27, 2006 - 3:21 am

Need more information...

What OS is the network drive? i.e. Mac OS X Server, Windows Server, Unix/Linux Server or is it another Mac OS X workstation? Is it a NAS (network attached storage) box, etc. Is it running Samba or NFS? What is the version of the OS that controls the network drive?

I assume that since you are using Final Cut Pro with multiple users that it's an XServe OS X Server with an XRAID because you would need an enormous amount of disk space to work with that much video data.

Are you saying that the creator/owner who put the files on the server cannot write the files? Or is it just everyone else? (default behavior on OS X Server)

Here's a couple of Mac OS X Server support documents on permissions:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107623
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712

Or scan the following articles:

http://www.apple.com/support/macosxserver/fileservices/

Obviously, you need to be the server admin to make changes to the network drive permissions. I would recommend changing the permissions on the parent folder to allow everyone in a particular group to read / write the files. Then make sure all the users are a member of that group. Also make sure the inherit permissions feature is turned on.

When a registered user creates a file or folder on a share point with Inherit Permissions enabled, the group of the file is changed to be the group of the enclosing folder, and the privileges of the file will be changed to that of the enclosing folder. Note that this does not change a file to use the group or privileges of the share point, but that of the enclosing folder.

The default behavior for Mac OS X Server is to set the creator/owner as the only one with Read / Write / Delete permission other users would be read only.

This depends on the version of your Mac OS X server as it needs to be 10.2.x or greater. If you have Tiger Server i.e. 10.4.x here's the File Services Manual that covers all the permissions information in great detail including the new ACL features.

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Fil...ices_v10.4.pdf