AFP sharing weirdness…

[haxie]

So maybe I am just missing something but I was under the impression that when a user copies a file from a AFP server share to their desktop or local drive, the permissions of the file/folder the user downloads get the owner/group settings of the folder the user is downloading to?

Example:

Client machine

User: clientUser
Group: staff

Downloads a folder from an AFP share

folder: TestFolder
Owner: ServerAdmin – R/W
Group: Admin – R
Everyone – R

Target folder on the client machine

Folder: TargetFolder
Owner: clientUser – R/W
Group: staff – R
Everyone – R

Shouldn’t the permissions on the TestFolder after download be:
Owner: clientUser – R/W
Group: staff – R
Everyone – R

If so, I have something going wrong on my AFP server…

When my client users download a file from the server to a location on their machine that match the situation I described above, they get only read access for Owner Group and Everyone?

If I am just being dense and missing something, could someone please explain it to me?

I dont’ have ACL’s for any of my shares.

Running OS X Server 10.4.6 and Client 10.4.6

Thanks in advance for any help…

haxie

[haxie]

thanks for your reply…

I guess I always likened copying a file from a server share to the local drive like copying a file from a drive or other source to a location that I have write access to on my local machine – which will give the file the UMASK of the machine.

I have content that I am sharing out to my OD users that I don’t want them to be able to change on the server, so i gave these users Read only access. However, once the content reached their machines they were having troubles using it because they needed write access to the folder structure, which I assumed they would get as the Owner of the file once it reached their machines. How do you protect your content on your server from being inadvertently changed by your user base, but still give them the permissions they need to use it on their local machine, without telling them to go monkey with the downloaded file permissions? (the content they are downloading is a large folder structure with many sub folder filled with various files).

And here I though I had a good handle on permissions structures —
😕

shows what I know…

thx for your help,
haxie

[Anonymous]

We have a similar behaviour issues on our Novell NFAP (AFP emulation) servers..

Files copied from a read-only folder to a student’s local desktop are owned by the student but marked read only. This seems similar to the behaviour of files copied from a CD or DVD.

The same procedure on an OSX 10.3.9 server gives students read+write on their local copy.

The student can change to read+write via Get Info but if there is a heirarchy of folders copied down the “Apply to enclosed items..” prompts for an admin password 🙁

Anyone know if it possible to change the behaviour so students get read/write by default?

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