Re: [WinMac] X-platform permission problems...

From: Curtis Wilcox (cwcx@mail.rochester.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 12:52:31 PST

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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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    Curtis Wilcox          cwcx@ats.rochester.edu
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    Eastman School of Music       Pager: x12-3290
    

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