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Hey guys, I am really starting to get frustrated with 10.4.2 server. We have a “Group” folder being mounted by all users on login. Inside this folder, are other more specific group folders. We have turned ACL’s on on this drive so that we can assign different OD groups different levels of permissions.
The problem is that it seem our clients (who are authenticating against and loging into the server) just dont respect/recognise these ACL permissions. They do however, see the UNIX permissions (at least when using AFP). SMB access seems similarly crippled. Is this a known issue with 10.4? Does anyone know of a fix?
Thanks Guys
We have used a combination of clients (i.e. 10.3.8 and .9, 10.4.1 and .2), all to no avail. I have started a re-build, as that seems to be the standard response from everyone else. Why does it always come back to that? OpenDirectory flakyness? Rebuild. DNS having problems? Rebuild. Syslogd playing hard to get? You guessed it, rebuild.
Sounds like a good tactic, one I wil have to employ when my 300gb firewire drive is returned…
Now, I’m not going to say I support what I’ve done to fix it, I actually feel like my spirit has finally been broken. After much fiddling around and troubleshooting, I decided to rebuild the server. And guess what? It fixed it the issue, predictably. AFP and SMB are now respecting ACE’s.
My question is, why cant I just troubleshoot the issue? I mean, is rebuilding a server everytime it has an “un-fixable” problem viable? I mean, really? And why doesnt Apple open the guts up a little more within the GUI? It is afterall, a server product. Does Apple think we are all incapable of troubleshooting a problem? Perhaps its a training issue, I mean, just train your support staff how to rebuild a server. Job done, no troubleshooting required. Good tactic… *satirical*
/rant
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