Re: [WinMac] Win2000 server locking out Macs

From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 09:16:51 PDT

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    Tim,

    From my experience a few weeks ago it appears that WinNT does not treat
    PC users the same as Mac users. I was just trying to give full
    permission to a folder on a shared network disk but couldn't unless they
    had full access to the disk first. It seemed to be an all or nothing
    scenario for the Mac users. I could have selected every other folder on
    that shared disk and marked it no access but that's crazy! I finally
    ended up just creating a new shared disk. I never had this kind of
    problem with Novell. There, PCs and Macs were treated the same and had
    I wanted to give permission to just one folder on a network disk I could have.

    We are sharing the root level of the network disk for both Macs and PCs.
     I've heard that's not a good idea but from my experience two weeks ago
    I can't see where it would have made any difference. Dan did not chime
    in at that time so I was not privy to his wealth of knowledge of Macs on
    a WinNT Server.

    > "Timothy K. Wilkinson" wrote:
    >
    > We have a Win2000 server serving Mac and NT 4.0 clients. We have lots of
    > researchers storing images on our server and connecting remotely to it.
    > Recently we got bit by the LOVEBUG from one of those remote connections.
    > We've locked down the server so that only the owner/creator of the file has
    > rights to change it. Before everyone had rights. The problem is that now
    > none of the Macs can save to the server. We've had to create a separate
    > partition with the old permissions for Mac users. Does anyone know why this
    > might happen? Any suggestions or are we stuck with this solution? Seems to
    > me that changing the permissions shouldn't cause such a sudden problem.

     ___________________________________________________________________
     Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
     tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
     http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/ Medical Center Blvd
     Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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