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.
I observe the same behavior. I have found that files dropped into the top level of the Public folder seem to become read/write for everyone that can access the folder. For files dropped into sub folders inside the Public folder the owership remains with the creator/mover of the file, even if you have set the folders to be read/write. I think you will find if the person creating the files first drops the files into the top level of the Public Folder and then returns and moves the files from the top level to the correct subfolder they will work as you expect.
An administrator friend of mine explained the setup to me the same a Bruce has stated, but for myself I note the same behavior you are experiencing and I deal with it as I noted above. For a person more capable than myself it would perhaps be possible to write a "folder action" script to do this automatically.
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