On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 12, 2004, at 8:23 AM, John Slavin wrote:
It's driving me nuts having to change ownership and permissions for every file just as soon as its created. Is there a way to make these setting stick, or am I missing something.
Put the files in the Public folder of the user on the iMac, and
do this: (taken right from Mac Help)
1. Select your Public folder, located in your home folder. 2. Choose File > Get Info. 3. Click Ownership & Permissions. 4. Click Details. 5. Choose Read & Write from the Others pop-up menu.
In practice you can do this for any folder. Files inherit the permissions of the enclosing folder, so files saved there be readable and writeable.
This is exactly what I have done. It works like a charm for all the files that are in there. But when persons accessing the folders create folders or files after I made this change, the priviledges for these files are always set to read only for everyone except the computer that created the file. So then I have to go back and select the main folders for read and write and tell it to apply to enclosed items again. Then I'm ok.
Make sure this iMac *isn't* on the internet, or that you're blocking filesharing out of your router/firewall
I'm not sure I understand how this is important to my problem, unless you're just talking about protecting the files outside of the LAN. If that's what you mean, then our LAN is behind the firewall of an Airport Base Station and I **think** it is safe.
--Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha rmacy Information Technology Group list%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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