[shrugs*]

At my work we only have one Mac machine running 10.3.9 in a sea of Wintels. The issue is that when the machine accesses certain file shares from one of our key file servers, it appears to be locking certain temporary files.

Here's a basic workflow as an example...

1. Connect to server through finder. Enter address smb://fileserver.
2. User is authenticated with username/password that was assigned through Active Directory
3. User then selects the share they'd like to connect to.. in our case, we'll call it 'spreadsheets'
4. When using the spreadsheets share, the user cannot rename certain folders.. ie 'November' can't be renamed to 'Month 11'.

From the server side, it appears that the machine is accessing temporary files within the 'November' directory and is then causing the error of 'cannot rename'. Accessed files would be something like ". month end.xls" with the period out front.

However, it works fine with newly created folder. That is, if the user creates a folder they can rename and do what they please. File permissions all check out.

Anyone have any insight?

[ghporter]

Permissions! File permissions are worthless if the FOLDER permissions are "read only." This is a major PITA with Windows file permissions, too. Go to the folder you want to edit files with IN WINDOWS, right click on it, and click Properties. The folder's attibutes are shown at the bottom of the window. You probably will have a green square in the "Read Only" box, which means that attributes within the folder are mixed. Click on the box and it goes empty then click Apply. You'll get the choice of changing attributes on the folder itself, or on all of its contents as well-choose to change ALL the contents too. That should do it.

[shrugs*]

That's the weird thing though. Server-side the user has modify rights on both the directory and it's contents, and client side (on the mac) it displays as 'you have read & write'.

[shrugs*]

Update: I've installed Thursby Software's Dave and so far it seems to be working great. Weird how that works, hopefully I can figure something out before the trial runs out or I'll just end up purchasing the software.

[ghporter]

I'm glad Dave helps. Sometimes the permissions thing extends oddly-like maybe there's a SAMBA set of permissions? Anyway, a lot of people say Dave is great and worth the price.