Set Permissions on folders on FIREWIRE drives

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Set Permissions on folders on FIREWIRE drives

Hello,

I have a problem and hope someone could give me his help.

I have to share a folder LOCATED on a EXTERNAL FIREWIRE drive on my LAN. The problem is that I set the permissions for a specific user on read only, and it doesn't works. I mean that the Sharing Control Panel reports that the specific user can only read but, on the workstation of that user, I can create/modify/delete everything inside that folder (that are the objects that I need to protect).

This doesn't happen if the shared folder is located on internal drives. On internal drives everything works properly.

The Mac are PowerMac G5 (PowerPc) running Leopard 10.5.8

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Marco

Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 20, 2012 8:33 AM

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BDAqua

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Jan 20, 2012 9:23 AM in response to MrZum

Marco,

Look at the bottom of the Get Info window for the whole drive & see if Ignore Permissions on this Volume is checked.

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MrZum Author

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Jan 20, 2012 10:17 AM in response to BDAqua

BDAqua,

The "ignore Permission on this Volume" option is un-checked.

can you imagine something else?

Thanks!

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BDAqua

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Jan 20, 2012 10:47 AM in response to MrZum

What group has rights to the drive? Are these users members of that group?

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sa_admin

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Jun 20, 2012 6:16 PM in response to MrZum

Any news on this? I just ran into this (on 10.7.4) and I could simply not believe this!!! How can any "server" software so utterly and completely fail in the most basic functionality?!?

This really, seriously puts a lot of our setup in jeopardy. And on top of that, the reason we even switched to this setup in the first place is because Lion has another as-of-yet major bug in its SMB inplementation!! (Not any other OS has this problem, incl. up to the latest version of Snow Leopard, with any of the same files)

It results in random files being "hidden" when copied to our Linux-based solution.... (even when using the terminal & CHMOD, CHFLAGS etc., it reverts back after a while, plus the recursive-ness of chflags is not working right either which makes the fixing very time-intensive...

If Lion is still so buggy, I cannot begin to imagine how bad things are going to be with the first release of Mountain Lion...

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sa_admin

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Jul 5, 2012 4:40 PM in response to sa_admin

UPDATE: Still no solution from Apple

My workaround: shuffle hundreds of Gbs around, putting the most privileged user folders on the external drive(s) to make space, then put the least privileged user folders on the 2nd internal one to retain a minimum of control.

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