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At 03:57 PM 02/14/2000 -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We're having a troubling problem resolution of which I'm hoping this list
>can provide.
>
>We have a cross-platform share (Win/Mac) on an NT 4.0 server called "Class
>Submissions" (ClassSub). It's designed as a "dropbox" in which professors
>can create folders as drop-off points for homework.
>
>There are two key groups into one of which every user falls: Faculty and
>Students
>
>Dropbox folders have NTFS permissions for Faculty set to RWXD.
>
>The problem comes when trying to set the NTFS permissions for
>students. If we set them on FOLDERS to RWXD for students, this
>inexplicably works. Users can create new docs, edit docs they own, but
>cannot edit or delete docs created by other users. I don't know HOW or
>WHY this works, but it DOES. The problem with this setting is that PC
>users can delete folders with these permissions. (You'd expect that,
>wouldn't you? But Mac users CAN'T delete these same folders!)
From Microsoft Knowledge Base (I searched on "mac drop box"):
How to Create Write Only Mac Volumes
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q172/1/71.asp
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