Bizzare file sharing problem

[gw1500se]

I have a real brain buster for you experts. I am a Unix grunt so be aware I am talking from a Unix perspective.

I have an OD shared folder that is mounted by a user on a client. The owner of the folder is ‘admin’ and the group is ‘nms’ (drwxrwxr-x). The user in question belongs to that group. When the user places a file in that folder it shows that user as the owner and the group as ‘nms’. Permissions (cmd-I) show the owner has full access. Now the problem. The user cannot rename that file, OS X tells him he has insufficient priviledges. He also cannot rename it from a terminal session which blows my mind (rw-rw-r–). Only root can rename it on the OD server itself where the folder resides.

Any ideas? TIA.

[gw1500se]

I just discovered something that makes this even more bizzare. If that user logs on at a different client machine, everything works as expected.

[andrina]

I assume that the shared folder is being mounted over AFP – or is this over NFS? Is there anything odd about the mount-point otherwise – anything bizarre or unexpected in /Volumes? Does the problem persist on the same machine for another user?

[gw1500se]

Your assumption is correct (afp). Everything looks normal. Didn’t try another user on that machine. Good suggestion. I’ll get back to you. Thanks.

[memememe]

Did you ever get the the bottom of this, I too discovered that it work as it should from another user Machine, seems some caching on users machine is over riding the server setting! Many many many hours lost to this one.

cheers

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