read only Public issue

[merdrum21]

I have an OD server running AFP file sharing. It is 10.4.11 and the Leopard clients are 10.5.7

When faculty post a file to their public folder and have students log in and retrieve it. They copy the file as read-only.

Is there a way to force the client to make all files copied to its local drive read/write ?

Apple said to make the folder a zip file or change Public to read/write but I figure there has to be a better way. Some faculty have many folders in their Public folder and converting them all to zip files would be time consuming and of course change Public to read/write for everyone wouldn’t work either.

thanks

[merdrum21]

I can see more of where the problem happens but it is still an issue of fixing it.

If I login with a faculty username and password and save something to their Public folder or move something to their public folder. The permissions are correct in that the owner has read/write access.

If I login as guest or another account, the owner name is correct but the permissions are set as read only. I’m not sure why owner privileges would change based on login.

Has anyone seen this before ?

[blackandcode]

The default permissions for a users public folder are set to read only for everyone else except the owner of the folder. However, over an AFP connection, if a user copies a file from that folder to their local desktop, the umask of the local system (the client computer) should be applied and the permissions of the newly copied file should allow the user to read/write.

Can you clarify? When a user copies a file to their local computer, is the read-only attribute still in place?

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[merdrum21]

Correct, the read-only attribute is still in place when they copy it locally.

[3stripes]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: merdrum21[/u][p]Correct, the read-only attribute is still in place when they copy it locally.[/p][/QUOTE]

I am seeing the same issue with 10.4.11 server and 10.5.7+ clients. It seems the umask is not changing the files to r/w once copied local.
Have you found any more on this?

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