Permission issues between an intel 10.7 and a G5 10.5

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Permission issues between an intel 10.7 and a G5 10.5

Hi all,

I hope you guys could should some light on and issue we are having at my office.

I have 2 girls in our ad department. Angie is on a relatively new Mac Pro running 10.7, and Robin is on a G5 Mac Pro running 10.5. They are part of our company network of about 150 windows computers. Everything works just fine except for a NAS that is used primarily for our ad department. Both girls have read and write access to this NAS.

Here's the problem. Robin can upload files to the NAS with no issues. She can open items with no issue. She cannot delete or edit any items. If Angie drops a file onto Robin's desktop via finder, Robin can't delete/edit it. And if Robin does the same to Angie, Angie can't delete/edit it. Angie can upload/edit/delete anything on the NAS with no issues.

Just for curiusity's sake, I hooked my intel imac 10.8 onto the network. Admin gave me read/write access and I can do whatever I want on the NAS, with no issues.

The temporary fix these girls have found is to change the permissions of the nas, the change them back to the original, and apply to enclosing folders.

Do you geniuses have any ideas on how to make this work without a hitch?

Posted on Aug 29, 2013 1:58 PM

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Grant Bennet-Alder

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Aug 29, 2013 8:31 PM in response to RLevitz

It sounds like the files each user creates are owned by the creator. That is normal. But then only the creator can modify them.

To make this work, both need to be members of the same Group, and each must have Group Read/Write permissions on the files/Directories created.

Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X

You could also be running afoul of this obscure problem:

OS X Server: When saving files on SMB shares, the permissions may be changed so only the owner can read or write

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RLevitz Author

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Aug 30, 2013 8:08 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

We do not have a Mac server.

How do I go about adding Robin and Angie to to the same group? I have had Macs for years, but never had to deal with networking issues such as this.

Thank you for the help!

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Aug 31, 2013 8:59 PM in response to RLevitz

You can create a Group directly in 10.7 in

System preferences > Users and Groups ...

... and add the 10.7 user to the group you create.

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For a Mac running 10.5, you would have to do something completely non-intuitive -- download Server Admin Tools for 10.5, and run WorkGroup Manager to add that user to the group.

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Then on your NAS, you would have to set Group permissions so that members of the group you created have Read/Write access to the files you wnat to share.

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