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Alf2001 Author

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filesharing and privileges problem in macOS Monterey

Hello, I have seen some posts about this that are rather old, and wanted to ask why the more recent macOS versions have problems with files/folders transferred from one mac to a second using filesharing. e.g. our group has some site-license and freeware app installers as well as document folders that are stored on a common-use mac. If such items are copied to a second mac via filesharing, there's typically a warning that they can't be opened due to insufficient privileges. Of course, one can go to the "Get Info" option to manually change the privileges but that's a bit time-consuming. For inexperienced and casual users, this is too much hassle. This was not a problem in older versions of the Mac operating system. I wonder if there's a workaround, or maybe we should just drop filesharing option and use box.com or dropbox.com?

Of course, if both macs have the same username, then this doesn't occur.

thanks!

Posted on Jul 29, 2022 1:09 PM

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Barney-15E

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Posted on Jul 29, 2022 3:07 PM

If the user that copies them tries to open them, they should work. If another user pushes them from the server to the Mac, and another user attempts to open them, they will have problems.

If they are accessing them directly on the file server, then you must set up correct access control lists to provide unfettered access. The default “mask” on macOS sets the user saving the file as owner with R/W and no group, others, no access.

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