[rad1sh]

I'm using netinfo with a 10.2.8 server and clients. I'm having problems with setting the righ permissions to folders. My sharepoint is setup so that it is primarily:

owner: Admin RW
group: staff R
everyone none.

then user folders are

owner: user RW
group staff R
everyone none

when i log into the account on a client machine the permissions of the home folders appear as

owner admin RW
group staff R
everyone none.

why is there this discrepency? they appear fine on the server. i have tried to create account both with 'Inherit Permissions' turned on and off. I have tried sharepoints in the Users folder aswell as new sharepoints on different volumes but no joy.

[rad1sh]

i have been diggin deeper into this and have solved some problems but they have developed into new ones.

The admin ownership of a home folder was a one off occurance. All new accounts created in WGM have the right user assinged. So i just deleted the faulty account

but..

here is the new problem

the user account is now defined as
USER: USER NAME RW
GROUP : Staff R
Everyone: R

which is good but then
all subdirectories in the user directory are
USER: USER NAME RW
GROUP : Staff no access
Everyone: no access

and i'm assumoing since all user are part of the staff group this is the reason they can't access the folders.

i tried to repair this by using chmod, which gave the staff group read access to the files but it makes no difference. i still cannot navigate the home directories on client computers.

i tried running different accounts in different sharepoints. Some sharepoints ahd unix style permission assignment and others had inherited from parent but this makes absolutley no difference.

i must be missing a trick somewhere

tomorrow i will see i creating users in the default users folder will make any difference.