Snow Leopard Srv 10.6.8

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Snow Leopard Srv 10.6.8

Using Mac Mini,

We have been noticing permission issues creep up. No matter what account we are using there are some folders we can not access, even with Admin accounts.

We tried Disk Ultilty, check and repair permissions - to no avail. As well as we tried the 'get info' to change account access from read only to read and write and that did not work either.

The same message appears: 'The folder ''XX" can't be open because you don't have permissions the see it's contents'.

Any recommendations on what can be done to fix this issue.

Thanks

Posted on Jan 8, 2012 8:33 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 9, 2012 4:55 AM in response to Ann G

Try using Server Admin to propagate your permissions.

Or use chmod command from the Terminal applications.

Or my favorite, using find and chmod together to enfoce POSIX permissions. Based on your description it sounds like the posix execute bit is not set properly to allow folder traversal. Here is a command to recurse through your shares and set all folders to 755 (rwxr-xr-x).

sudo find /path/to/share -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Change /path/to/share to the actual file system path where your share exists.

The Finder's Get Info window is anemic at best, especially when trying to effect files on a shared file system from the client.

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Answer 2

Ann G Author

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Jan 9, 2012 8:08 AM in response to Strontium90

Thanks not much of a terminal user, will give this a try.

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