AFP problems OS X Server – 10.3.9

[babaton]

Hi,

I’ve had problems with the server ever since we got our imac G5s running 10.4.2

10.4.2 clients are unable to save via afp to a 10.3.9 server.smb seems fine but there are issues there with resourse forks and such.
I logged the call with apple who don’t seem to be in a hurry to do anything about it.They just told us to upgrade the server to 10.4.2.

Heres the case ref – 53086366

Anyway, I managed to fix the issue by changing the owner of the share point to root, everythings been fine for a while.

Now today I notice that the server doesn’t seem to be recognising group members.
Even if i set a share to everyone – RWX users are still unable to create new folders or copy files to the server.
We always get “the operation could not be completed because you do not have enough access priveliges”

Is there anyway I can reset all the permissions on the server, I mean really blitz the settings back to nothing and start over again??

Thanks very much.

[maccanada]

Have you set the sharepoint to inherit permissions?
How are the clients connecting to the server? OD accounts?
Anyway…
The easiest way to change ownership and permissions is through the command line.
cd /pathtosharepoint
chmod -R 777 *

This will set the permissions to rwx for owner, group and everyone so take care before using it. You can change each of the numbers in the 777 to set the permissions you need using the following table:
4 – allow write access
2 – alllow read access
1 – allow execute (or search within for folders)

So 766 would be rwx for owner, and rw for group and everyone else.

You change ownership of files in the same way:

chown -R user:group *

This will change the ownership of everything in the current directory down, recursively. If you only want to change the group use :group – if only one name is given it will assume it to be a user.

[babaton]

Hi, t6hanks for replying.

Yes, all the shares are set to inherit permissions although items created by 10.4.2 clients do not inherit the owner.Instead the item is owned by the user.

My accounts are Active Directory accounts logging on via our 10.3.9 server which is bound to the AD.

I’ve tried using OD accounts but the problem is exactly the same.

I did fins this post on apple site – http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.68b623c5

I’m just testing some of it out now.

[babaton]

10.4.3 doesn’t fix the issue for me.

when a 10.4.3 client creates or copies a new file to the xserve the file does not inherit the owner, the owner is always set to the current user.

However the group permissions are still inherited ok and also the system seems to be recognising group members.Still in my experience this problem has been intermittant.

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