[tomster]

actually, i’m quite interested how you even got that far. anything particular to watch out for?

i’m about to try the exact same thing in our office: switch our windows users in accounting and managemnt over to suse 8.1 with open office to join the macosx users in graphics… 😉

any input? do the home directories of your linux users reside on the osx server?

any help would be greatly appreciated -> i’m now SO close to turning my first client into a MICROSOFT FREE ZONE…!

[tomster]

i’m not entirely sure, but i do think your question has been answered already [url=http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.3bb9f811/99]here[/url] and, of course, [url=https://www.afp548.com/eBBS/viewtopic.php?t=170]here[/url].

i suggest you either do a little research there or rephrase your problem 😉

t.

[tomster]

perhaps this can help you: i’m running the uw imapd on a linux box with several clients using Mail.app (as well es outlook on pc and entourage)

what i did (rather than re-compile imapd, which is in fact the only other way) is create a directory (“mail”) in each homedirectory and then set up each client to use that directory as starting point.

in Mail.app you would use the ‘IMAP Path Prefix’ option in the ‘Advanced Tab’ of the mail account preferences.

so imapd still writes directly to the homedirectory, except that the clients tell it to do so only in ‘mail’. telling imapd once is of course the more elegant solution, than telling every client what to do, but it is a lot more easy 😉

[tomster]

hi joel,

thanks for the hint. since my previous experiments with setting umask in .cshrc were futile (in 10.1.x the finder doesn’t honor it) i hade given up on solving the problem. the script shown at the website you mention is neat, very clever to wrap the WindowServer 😉

anyway, after three five days of teamwork, none of the editors has complained about locked files, so i guess, it really did the trick…

still hoping for a real fix in 10.2.3, though!

t.

[tomster]

[quote:0f2ab5718e=”waterman”]But, as it is now, the appropriate permissions are not being given. For example, I have a Producers folder that is set to autmount for users in the Producers group, and Support folder for members of the Support group. The owner of these sharepoints is root and the appropriate groups are given rw permission for the folders. But, when I log in as, say, a member of the Producers group, I don’t have access to the Producers folder (ie, it says there are 0 items in that folder). Strangely, I do have access to two other folders that I shouldn’t even have permission to view![/quote:0f2ab5718e]

ack. i think we’re experiencing similar symptoms with an identical cause, something i would call user mismatch. apparently, it’s a big issue even on apple’s own developer lists… without knowing yet, what it is exactly in your case (or mine) the principle is this:

user ‘admin’ on system ‘server’ has the id ‘501’, user ‘johndoe’ has id ‘502’.

now: user ‘johndoe’ on system ‘client’ happens to have id ‘501’…

now what happens, when johndoe logs onto the server? the answer (seemingly) is “it depends[tm]”…

in my case, when i’m logged into the server the permissions are as follows:

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> ssh jana@highflyer
jana@highflyer’s password:
Welcome to Darwin!
sh-2.05a$ cd /Volumes/Copper/Groups/grafik/
sh-2.05a$ ls -la
total 25112
drwxrwxrwx 13 grafik grafik 442 Nov 25 02:00 .
drwxrwxr-x 9 root staff 306 Nov 25 00:49 ..
drwxrwxrwx 12 grafik grafik 408 Nov 23 15:54 currrent
drwxrwxrwx 32 grafik grafik 1088 Nov 12 12:24 fonts
-rw-rw-r– 1 grafik grafik 0 Nov 21 16:32 foo.txt
sh-2.05a$ touch jana.txt
sh-2.05a$ ls -la jana.txt
-rw-r–r– 1 jana grafik 0 Nov 25 02:02 jana.txt
sh-2.05a$ ls -lan jana.txt
-rw-r–r– 1 1034 1026 0 Nov 25 02:02 jana.txt
sh-2.05a$ exit
logout
Connection to highflyer closed.
[/code:1:0f2ab5718e]

now, when i log onto a client with the same account (i.e the user is not defined locally but exists in the same domain — netinfo/root) i get this:

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> ssh jana@mediadesk
jana@mediadesk’s password:
Welcome to Darwin!
sh-2.05a$ cd /Network/Servers/Highflyer/Volumes/Copper/Groups/grafik/
sh-2.05a$ ls -la
total 25184
drwxrwxrwx 14 admin unknown 432 Nov 25 02:02 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 admin unknown 264 Nov 25 00:49 ..
drwxrwxrwx 12 admin unknown 364 Nov 23 15:54 currrent
drwxrwxrwx 32 admin unknown 1044 Nov 12 12:24 fonts
-r–r–r– 1 admin unknown 0 Nov 21 16:32 foo.txt
-r–r–r– 1 admin unknown 0 Nov 25 02:02 jana.txt
sh-2.05a$ ls -lan
total 25184
drwxrwxrwx 14 501 99 432 Nov 25 02:02 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 501 99 264 Nov 25 00:49 ..
drwxrwxrwx 12 501 99 364 Nov 23 15:54 currrent
drwxrwxrwx 32 501 99 1044 Nov 12 12:24 fonts
-r–r–r– 1 501 99 0 Nov 21 16:32 foo.txt
-r–r–r– 1 501 99 0 Nov 25 02:02 jana.txt
sh-2.05a$
[/code:1:0f2ab5718e]

see, not only is the ownership different (i.e. admin/501 instead of jana/1034) but so are the permissions!! (i.e. -r–r–r– instead of -rw-r–r–)

wtf? i’m totally puzzled, this is not at all, what i expected… and the manual is just no help…

perhaps somebody round here?

still hoping,

tom

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