On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Christianson, Jay wrote:
I'm guessing you have your macs bound to AD. that said, there is a
bug with the AD-plugin and connections to SMB shares on the windows
servers. (search this list, or go to MacWindows to read up on the
problem)
Active Directory is not involved on the client side. They're just
accessing an SMB share.
I've experimented with permissions, and the situation gets even
worse. I think there's a big ol' bug in the 10.4 Finder.
As I noted before, the folder has the 4 write permissions set to
inherit to all children. It has read permissions inheriting only to
sub-folders. In this condition, 'cp' can copy files into it but the
Finder can't. It complains that you don't have the necessary
permissions. However, an empty file appears on the destination.
I tried changing it so read, write, and execute permissions inherit
to all children. It's no longer a drop box because the files are all
readable, but the files cannot be deleted except by an administrator.
Now the Finder can successfully copy files, but there's a new
problem. Using TextEdit, I created a short text file called
testing.txt and saved it to the Desktop. I copied the file to the
share using the Finder. The destination folder now has two files:
testing.txt and ._testing.txt. I didn't think a text file would have
a resource fork, but there you go. Anyway, when I double-click
testing.txt on the share, I get an error:
"Item testing.txt is used by Mac OS X and cannot be opened."
Huh? Why would it think this is a system file? So on a hunch, I went
back to the server console and deleted ._testing.txt. Now the text
file opens fine! Of course, from the command line none of these
problems appear.
Any ideas as to what's going on? Any way for students to "turn in"
their work using a Windows share without being able to delete each
other's files?
Thanks,
Matt
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