Author Topic: Apple Server - Permissions Question (Read 491 times)

soopahfly · **on:** January 28, 2011, 10:49:21 AM

Apple Server - Permissions Question

on: January 28, 2011, 10:49:21 AM

Here's a brain-teaser for you, (well it is for me anyway).

I've got a customer with an apple server, and they have an issue with the way the network is running.

They have a folder called "SharedUsers" and all the users home folders are stored there.
Some users, depending on permissions can access other users folders, which is fine, the issue is those who can't.

Say they have their standard folders, Home, Desktop, Documents etc... They can save outside of these folders in their standard folder set and into their named root. Then everyone can see the files they are working on.

Is there a way of making it that if I was a user for example and it was set like this:

SharedUsers.
Soopahfly
Desktop
Documents
Pictures.

That I wouldn't be able to save anywhere other than below the Soopahfly folder, then restrict access to that folder. So anyone can browse into the SharedUsers folder, see who's listed but not be able to access any other than their own?

Cypher · **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2011, 23:09:41 PM

Re: Apple Server - Permissions Question

Reply #1 on: January 28, 2011, 23:09:41 PM

I suspect you will have to bring the user folders out up a few levels and create their own individual shares.

To my knowledge OSX sharing doesn't deal with inheritance permissions and manual entries at specific levels, as you may expect from a Windows Server. It's a case of sharing something at a certain level and everything below it is fair game to those permissions. You simply don't have the same flexibility.

soopahfly · **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2011, 14:24:53 PM

Re: Apple Server - Permissions Question

Reply #2 on: January 29, 2011, 14:24:53 PM

I thought as much. This is my first dabble with an Xserve.

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