Part 1 Users have shares automatically mounted that they can drop PDFs into for a proofing system. The shared folders use ACLs. Previously the shares were using just POSIX permissions as those were adequate. Users could either drop a PDF into the folders using the Finder, or they could write them into the share directly from InDesign CS4.
Now, with ACL based shared folders, InDesign reports "Cannot save to the file "blah.pdf". You may not have permission or the file may be in use." And then it proceeds to write out a zero K PDF. I'm not sure that it's ACL related, it might be something else. But I don't know anything about how ACLs are implemented, and if and how aware of ACLs an application would need to be or if there is some other interaction that could be going on, maybe even with AFP as the intermediary. ls -le on one of the shares reveals the following: drwxrwx---@ 4 admin admin 136 Jul 26 13:39 Gloss Covers 0: user:charlie inherited allow list,add_file,search,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit 1: user:hurley inherited allow list,add_file,search,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit It seems "add_file" should be adequate for the user to both add and write to the file. This is on OS X Server 10.5.6. Part 2 When I ls -le on the folder after trying to create a PDF directly with InDesign, this is what I get: -rw-r--r--+ 1 charlie admin 0 Jul 27 00:12 test file_IDcs4.pdf 0: user:charlie inherited allow read,write,execute,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity 1: user:hurley inherited allow read,write,execute,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity So there appears to be write permission for the file, yet IDCS4 won't write to it. It creates the file, but won't write any data to it. It ends up being a zero K PDF and of course the RIP tries to identify it, can't because it's not really a PDF, and then every admin gets an email about the failure. I'm thinking this is just some obscure ACL problem, maybe even a bug that's fixed with later server versions? Thanks, Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
