macOS Mojave with server 5.7.1file sharing Group permissions problem :-(

Yes... Apple loosing the right way. And this way doesnt contains any other solutions for pro users. This time apple is just a phone and tablet maker... if you hear us TIM help and give:

• macOS Ultimate Server Software
• mac Server hardware
• new macpro for pro users

And if you have a little bit more free time please give us your iCloud like a Office365

Thank You!

Many will simply not upgrade and run unpatched servers. Eventually they will become compromised and the appearance will be to the layperson that Apple products are not very good.

Not a good strategy/outcome.

Same here. I have 8 people working on shared files on a mac Mini. Every time someone modifies a file, he and only he can reopen it, unless I trickle down permissions of the whole shared folder. Extremely annoying as I had to do this more than a dozen times today. Sharing on SMB, worked even worse on AFP for us.

It may have been taken and set back to factory specs . Only thing is was it down loaded before the restart to factor specs was done! Unsure whether that’s what going on but could be the best answer to your questions

Hi Ryan,

I'm connecting via SMB.

Strange is that with pages files for example the .pages suffix appears, when it didn't appear before. Also a space appears before the dot, the avatar returns to the default pages avatar and not the preview. The message I get is the file format is invalid.

I have to redo the "permission to subfolders" process to put everything back in order.

You probably mean "... But if it lives on your boot drive, you are forced to stick with AFPS."

But I'll play a while with a shared folder on an external HFS+ formatted drive . I'll let you know of the results.

Ok, so I moved all the files to an external drive fomatted as HFS+.

No change, regularly, I have to revalidate folder permissions because some files appear as Invalid format to the other users, the original user (last one who made changes) can open the file perfectly.

So it's apparently not an issue with afps but with the security protocol with which macos Mojave manages permissions.

How do I get back to High Sierra??? :-(

This seems like such a show-stopping bug that either apple is already well aware of it, or those of us experiencing it have not yet stumbled on the workaround.

Can anyone here confirm that apple has acknowledged it as a bug? if not, anyone have the means of filing an official apple bug report?

this must be impacting tons of users.

Ok, so I guess this is not going to work if the folders are on an external drive.

I'll try anyway, see what happens. If not I'll move the folders to the internal ssd.

Thanks a lot amigo! If it works you'll have saved me from a very sh... annoying situation.

Hi Ryan,

That's my setup right now. All files are on external drive formatted in HFS+ and connecting via AFP. Main drive in Mac Mini is 500Gb SSD formatted in apfs.

Still having permissions problems. Connections work well and are very fast though.

mark

AFP is faster, but less secure I suppose. Man in the middle attacks on a LAN isn't the biggest concern of my clients. A functional network comes first. So I stick with AFP.

What came first, the wheel or the brake? LOL.

Hi jlantrip,

I did the first command, entered correct password, then

sudo chmod -R +a "group:Programme\ ext:allow readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,list,search,add_file,

add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_/Volumes/Shared\ Folders/Programmes\ ext

"Programmes ext" being the shared folder,

and it just hangs on >

Am I doing something wrong?

Hello jlantrip,

This is the result I got today with what seems to be a "lesson" of how to enter the command line correctly... ;-)

serveur-korke:~ korke$ sudo chmod -R +a "group:programmesext allow readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit"/Volumes/Shared\ Folders/Programmes\ ext

usage: chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [i][# [ n]]] mode|entry file ...

chmod [-fhv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-E | -C | -N | -i | -I] file ...

serveur-korke:~ korke$

Awesome to hear all that detail, its also extremely coincidental that my issues were born from a very similar upgrade, from a 2009 Mac pro, internal RAID to a mac mini 2018 external raid. Glad to see all is holding up and I have also stopped receiving phone calls haha.

So is the consensus that we to use the command line to get new files saved in a shared folder to inherit the permission of the shared folder instead of the user who created the file? Please tell me this is incorrect.