[Simon]

I have been seeing some weird Finder behavior lately when accessing an old Mac mini running Tiger from my Leopard MBP via AFP.

On the MBP I mount my Mac mini user home using my regular user/pass.
afp://[email protected]
The user home mounts immediately, but the icons of the folders in my user home (like Desktop, Documents, etc.) display a badge indicating I don't have access. However, if I then click on one of those folders, the badge disappears and the folder opens just fine. Once I close it, the badge immediately appears again.

I can access all my stuff so it's really just a GUI annoyance, but still, I wonder what is causing this weird behavior.

Any ideas?

[Simon]

Nobody else has seen this?

[AKcrab]

I have a 10.5 and 10.4 machine at work. I'll check this tomorrow.

[Simon]

*bump*

[AKcrab]

I'm not seeing this issue. Folders look "normal" and I have full access.

[Simon]

It's really weird.

I have full access too, but these little 'do not enter' badges are on all the folders as if I didn't have read permission.

In column view mode I see that as soon as I click on the folder the badge disappears and its content is displayed.

[AKcrab]

My default view was column view when I connected.

I did switch views and check all of them, and everything was normal.

Have you repaired permission on both machines?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by AKcrab 

Have you repaired permission on both machines?

Absolutely.

I have checked the items in the remote user home. They have correct 700 permissions (just as on Leopard) so as the owner I should have no trouble. And indeed, I am not having trouble accessing things. But the GUI seems to think there's some kind of permissions problem.

I'm starting to wonder if this could have anything to do with UIDs...

[Simon]

*bump*

Any ideas?

[Simon]

The recent 10.5.8 update didn't change anything about the problem. I wonder if this is an issue on the Tiger side...