Restricting mount points to users

[jgfilms]

ok, i’m totally stumped here. maybe i’m being a moron or maybe there’s something wrong. i’m on snow leopard server 10.6.8

first question that might negate my actual issue.

Does mac server automagically allow all users to see any mount points contained in ‘Shared Items’ folder? if so that might explain my issue:

here’s my issue:

contained within ‘/Shared Items/” i have a couple of folders and inside those are other folders setup as two individual mount points.

each of those mount points are also web roots

i’ve properly setup users and groups that pertain only to the individual mount points – e.g. one group for one, one group for the other.

i assign user ONLY to those groups and when i propagate permission, it kills my website (e.g. apache permissions restricted). i then have to manually chmod the web files to get it to work.

that’s when the trouble seems to start. BOTH users when they login via afs to mount their share are offered BOTH mount points, when they should only see one or the other.

im totally stumped here because it’s as if the file level permissions are overriding mount point access which is done on the server level. doesn’t make sense.

is it that i can’t appleshare web directories? will i have to have custom permissions? again i’m totally confused – not like the users should be sharing. it’s simply one user one mount.

any insight would be appreciated!!!!!!

j

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