[fobside]

I am not sure if this is an OS X or OS X Server question, so please bear with me. I have a friend/client that uses all Apple. They have a central server running OS X Server. Each workstation has the server mounted as a network drive. I believe every workstation login belongs to the group STAFF. The problem we are encountering is that when someone creates a file (I believe on their own workstation) and moves it to the server, no one can access that file, because the file belongs to just that one person.

There are two ways I wanted to approach this for a solution, maybe needing both:

1. Fix the problem at the workstation level. Make it so any file created automatically belongs to the group as well. A friend of mine said I could possibly do this by editing the .bash or .profile files, so it defaults to a group access.

2. Fix the problem on the server level. This client said that he cannot select all the files in the share and change the permissions. If there's some way to get permissions to "trickle down" to all files in lower directories, that could be a solution.

If anyone has any solutions or ideas, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Art Vandelay]

This is a simple check box on the server. Open Workgroup Manager, select Sharing. For each affected share, select the share in the list of share points, click the Protocol tab, under Apple File Settings click "Inherit permissions from parent" instead of "Use standard UNIX behavior."

[fobside]

Thanks. Is it set to "Use standard UNIX behavior" by default? I ask only because, I am not familiar with OS X Server at all and I'd like to try to cover all my bases.