I recently took over a client who runs all Mac's in the shop. They are running a Mac OS X Server 10.4.11. They basically only use the server to host an accounting application and to facilitate file sharing. There's a public folder on the server which stores all the important word documents and such. When I view "Folder Info" on the shared folder, admin is set as the owner with read/write access, the group "management" is set to have read/write access, and just to troubleshoot I also set everyone to have read/write access. When I view share -l, it shows the folder with the correct permissions. However, whenever a user creates a new document, after it's saved the permissions magically reset on that file to "read-only." I have tried chmod g+s as suggested by another forum, but it didn't solve the problem. I haven't been able to find a solution, despite my best efforts. I have all the latest updates installed.
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In the "get info" screen, the owner remains the same. However I changed the owner of the root public folder to one of the users but she still gets the same permission error attempting to edit files created by other users. When I do share -l, the permissions still appear to be correct but obviously they aren't. I also set up Everyone to have read/write to test it out, and even that doesn't solve the problem.
Got it. What you are saying is that newly created files/folders are not inheriting permissions for their parent folder.
There is a way to fix it in Workgroup Manager > Shares
I am a little rusty on 10.4 Server, but there you will find the option to use POSIX permissions or ACL for each share. Enable ACL and give your users read/write access. There is also an option to propagate permission.
Try that, if you are unsuccessful, let me know - I'll pull some old screenshots.
I assumed that you were authenticating to Open Directory. If you are then keep reading, otherwise let me know.
The Directory Administrator is not necessarily diradmin (it is by default but could be renamed).
When you open Workgroup Manager, look for a user with UID of 1000. What is it's short name?
If it's indeed diradmin and you don't have a correct password for it then look at the following article:
http://support.apple.com/k
If even after logging in as diradmin the Sharing tab is grayed out then look at this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.c
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by: maximus5328Posted on 2009-10-30 at 12:48:57ID: 25706233
the permissions get reset to read-only for who? admin? group? everyone? all of the above?
does the user who created the file remains the owner?