"Access Denied" on subfolder of shared folder

I'm having the exact same problem with my setup, and it's obvious that noone here has an answer to that, but I did stumble upon something that seems to be working for the time being. My mac has two harddrives, so I created a folder on the second drive called "Shared S**t", and made it a shared folder. From my Vista machine, I don't seem to have a problem getting into that folder. So anything I need to move over to my vista machine and vice versa, I'll put in that folder. That might also work on your main drive, provided you share a folder you created yourself, as opposed to a folder that's being shared by default.

I'm having a similar problem, where files are viewable from the Windows client, but if you move them into another folder, they lose all their permissions (e.g. "Everyone, no access" / Unix 0000)

Seriously annoying!

Add me to this list.

If I share out /Media with the user 'mediauser' as Read Only, but /Media/Music does not give mediauser read only permissions. Only Me (Read/write) and everyone (read only). You figure mediauser would fall under 'everyone' at that point, but no.

if you add your user that you log into the share with to the subfolders they magically start working. (or set everyone to 'read only') and then use the "apply to containing items" pulldown...

You can modify the primary share folder to add your user's permissions and pull down the little cog icon and select "apply to containing items" or some such, which fixes it. However the next time you add a directory, file or whatever the permissions need to be fixed for that file.

The OP is right that shares aren't giving inherited permissions.

I filed this as a bug report with Apple early last week.

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I think this is the same problem that the people who can not access their over the Airport, shared hard drive have.

I may have partial solution. Try accessing it from within the application that created it. If that doesn't work, try going into keychains, finding the keychain for the shared folder password, clicking access and adding the applications to the list, and try again.

This is what I got from a developer when I filed a bug report.

---SNIP---
We are still not entirely certain what you're describing. Are you saying that you have created a folder, and created an ACL -- and requested inheritence for the ACL -- allowing "testuser" (or whomever) to have read/write access? E.g.,

chmod +a "testuser allow read,write,file inherit,directoryinherit" /Media
mkdir /Media/Movies

and then /Media/Movies did not have the ACL you expected? If I am understanding this correctly, please do the equivalent of "ls -lde /Media /Media/Movies" from Terminal.
---SNIP---


so replace /Media with your share directory, and replace 'testuser' (in the chmod line) with the user in question).

you may have to do this for any directories/files within the share already, or move them out and back in perhaps?

Message was edited by: Mindflux