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brendanf - Nov 30, 2005 - 2:56 pm
I have shared folders on an Xserve. 10.4.x The top level folders are set to inherit permissions. Problm is the subfulders being created are taking posix permissions and stopping other users from reading and writing in them.
Set the owner name and read write access
set the the group and read write access
set everyone to read and write.
Workgroup manager give errors when tring to apply the inherited permissions throough the folder levels and show them with posix permissions and I can't highlight the inherited button. Ii have to manually change the owner and r/w group and r/w and everyone r/w
is there another utiltiy the will do this quicker or is there a easy way to change them recursivly from command line????
thank you
Set the owner name and read write access
set the the group and read write access
set everyone to read and write.
Workgroup manager give errors when tring to apply the inherited permissions throough the folder levels and show them with posix permissions and I can't highlight the inherited button. Ii have to manually change the owner and r/w group and r/w and everyone r/w
is there another utiltiy the will do this quicker or is there a easy way to change them recursivly from command line????
thank you
Natobasso - Nov 30, 2005 - 5:34 pm
Howdy!
Hopefully I can help (Junior IT) but if I can't, don't hesitate to jettison me as your Tech for this session.
Have you set up user groups in Workgroup manager? Here we set up a "creatives" group for all our mac designers (I'm one of them) and set that group to read/write as part of their server access. Then you can have more control over permissions when each client drops a file on the server.
Our IT guy created a script that would sweep the entire server every 5 minutes or so to make all permissions read/write. However, I don't know how that program was set up. I could find out tomorrow from our IT guy, though.
There's a free app called tinker tool that allows you to control the client station permissions so the folders created on the server aren't set to read only or to that user only. Get the app here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21156
Hope this helps, and if nothing else maybe you will have some corroboration of your issue. Let me know.
Hopefully I can help (Junior IT) but if I can't, don't hesitate to jettison me as your Tech for this session.
Have you set up user groups in Workgroup manager? Here we set up a "creatives" group for all our mac designers (I'm one of them) and set that group to read/write as part of their server access. Then you can have more control over permissions when each client drops a file on the server.
Our IT guy created a script that would sweep the entire server every 5 minutes or so to make all permissions read/write. However, I don't know how that program was set up. I could find out tomorrow from our IT guy, though.
There's a free app called tinker tool that allows you to control the client station permissions so the folders created on the server aren't set to read only or to that user only. Get the app here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21156
Hope this helps, and if nothing else maybe you will have some corroboration of your issue.
Let me know.
Natobasso - Nov 30, 2005 - 5:59 pm
Looks like with AFP, Inherit Permissions isn't viable unless you have 10.4.2 installed:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301601
The 10.4.2 update is supposed to resolve your issue with permissions and AFP. Are you running 10.4 or 10.4.1 server perhaps?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301601
The 10.4.2 update is supposed to resolve your issue with permissions and AFP. Are you running 10.4 or 10.4.1 server perhaps?
brendanf - Nov 30, 2005 - 6:00 pm
Yes, I have all the users that hsould have access inn a group. Yes when one of the users put a file in one of the main shared folders sub folder it retains their user as r/w and everyone else gets read only. I'm starting to wonder if its a bug but please ask around.
I'll check out tinker tool in the meantime.
thx
I'll check out tinker tool in the meantime.
thx
brendanf - Nov 30, 2005 - 6:03 pm
Its 10.4 server. Ill get through the updates. But how do I fix all the messed up sub folders? Update to 10.4.3 and run permissions fix fro the 10.4 cd???? Will this not recreate my problem??
Natobasso - Dec 1, 2005 - 2:14 am
When you update past 10.2 as the apple website suggests, then you're able to run Inherit Permissions and actually have it work. Right now, since I assume you're running server 10.2 or below, you are trying to run Inherit Permissions but it doesn't work on that system.
Reread my previous post with thet article the apple website. In that article, apple has acknowledged that with AFP in Mac OS X Server, Inherit Permissions is a bug.
***DO NOT RUN DISK UTILITY ON YOUR SERVER DRIVES, it will screw them up and most likely crash your system and lose your data directories.***
Make sure you have a viable and current back up of your server data in case something goes wrong during updates, and make sure the server doesn't crash while updating; could cause problems.
How long have you worked with OS X Server? Are you the IT person for your company?
Reread my previous post with thet article the apple website. In that article, apple has acknowledged that with AFP in Mac OS X Server, Inherit Permissions is a bug.
***DO NOT RUN DISK UTILITY ON YOUR SERVER DRIVES, it will screw them up and most likely crash your system and lose your data directories.***
Make sure you have a viable and current back up of your server data in case something goes wrong during updates, and make sure the server doesn't crash while updating; could cause problems.
How long have you worked with OS X Server? Are you the IT person for your company?
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