[rstasel]

Seems that Word does store tmp files in

/private/var/tmp/folders.uuid/TemporaryItems/

Where uuid is the user’s unix id.

Fixing the group on that folder (which also was set to wheel) also resulted in no progress.

Anyone have any idea?

[rstasel]

false alarm.

After modifying the script to make the /tmp/username folder grouped correctly, moving stuff out of it to the network user directory works flawlessly. However, word still chokes.

Will keep looking. Just interesting that I seem to be the only person running into this.

Thanks!

[rstasel]

Joel, thanks for the quick follow up,

Home dirs are set up via afp using network home directories. Server is a 10.4.8 Server box, clients are 10.4.8 as well.

pwd shows the paths that Word is seeing being the same as if the redirector were not there.

hmmm…. this might be a group mapping issue. I ran lsof after the first save (which is successful) and after the second save which is not. I put these files to /tmp/rstasel where the Microsoft stuff is redirected. I then tried to move them to my desktop (which is on a network home directory) (so they moved from a local space to the server) and got the following error:

mv: /Network/Servers/server.domain.dom/Volumes/Data/Users/rstasel/Desktop/firstsave.txt: set owner/group (was: 1097/0): Permission denied

(I’ve replaced the server name to protect it’s innocence).

Moving ANY file from /tmp/username to that users home folder produces this error… which is probably why Word is throwing a fit.

The files did move. In /tmp/rstasel they show as being owned by rstasel, with a group of wheel. On the desktop they are rstasel:staff (I do have staff set as my primary group on our OD).

So, what does this mean? Do I need to add some groups to the local machine? Why is it thinking I am part of wheel locally when I have no local account on this machine. I “groups” command does not even return wheel. The first group listed is staff. Bug?

Thanks!

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