Hello! I've been lurking here for a few days but now I have a question!
My department has a Xserve and about 7 Mac client machines. All clients fileshare with the Xserve and do not netboot. Some folks are transferring files over that have read-only group priviliges and others in the group open the file, edit but cannot save it. Example: clients (bob, sue) transfer files to Xserve (where they log in as a user who are in the same group) (bob in dept A, sue in Dept A). Bob transfers file foo.txt to the Xserve. Sue opens foo.txt but cannot save it because Bob copied it in a way that the Group write priviliges are missing. This is causing me headaches. I want to run a cron job every night that sets all files under a particular folder to 775 (rwx rwx r-x). Now, is this a bad idea for reason that I don't know about? This will affect tens of thousands of files every night. Or can someone tell me / point me to site as to why my clients are copying files to the Server incorrectly. thanks for any advice. matt | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
