Group folder cannot be acces by group member

[Anonymous]

Setup: OSX Server 10.3.3
Client: OSX 10.3.3
Shared: 10 folder plus 1 other folder used as a group folder
The group folder contains all the users that need to be in it (about five). All the folder are contained in another folder so it is easy to backup the whole bunch.

So when I copy a document from my user folder to the group folder, normally the other member of the group should have access read & write. But it is not the case. The permission on the copyed document in the group folder only retains the user read & write, the group permission is set to nothing. Sometimes it is set to read only. It is impossible to modify a document in the group folder if you’re not the original owner of the document.

That have worked as this since 10.2, before we used IP 6.3.3 which worked fine under a similar setup.

What are the setting to be used for sharing a folder among a group of users.

Any idea anyone

[Anonymous]

Problem solved.

In the manual “File services administration” on page 23, “Changing apple file setting for a share point” the protocol had to be set to “Inherit permission from parent”.

A note should be put in the manuel that if you want to share a folder the Standard Unix Behavior is not the one to be set.

I am not a specialist with OSX Sserver and tend to stay with standard or default settings.

Hope that this can help others.

It took me all Sunday afternoon to figure that out, but I don’t care cause I’ve learned a little bit more.

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