Right, I'm trying really really hard to remain calm as I write this so if it strays into the realms of ranting, forgive me. Firstly, I come for a a Windows background, around 8 years of server/network experience. I am now for one reason or another forced to work with Macs. They are slowly driving me to self harm but that's a differnt story...
Today's problem is Server Admin. During my recent hols we had a consultant in and over a week, he managed to "fix" the file permissions on the server (not that they were broken to begin with) and now I'm left with the following scenario.
A user managed to delete an entire client folder this morning. Clearly she shouldn't have been able to. Checking the permissions I see that the consultant has reset all permissions on the client folders to have full read/write access which includes by default the ability to delete. Now unlike the 'Modify' permission in Windows which makes it simple to assign rights to delete, etc, Server Admin isn't quite so clever....
I have been running tests to get to the bottom of it and from what I can see, I can create a folder on the Mac OSX server (Leopard) and remove all permissions from it and low and behold, users can still 1). See it and 2). Delete it. Ridiculous.
So please, before I'm found hanging in the server room by my socks, tell me why it refuses to do the most basic of tasks....
Today's problem is Server Admin. During my recent hols we had a consultant in and over a week, he managed to "fix" the file permissions on the server (not that they were broken to begin with) and now I'm left with the following scenario.
A user managed to delete an entire client folder this morning. Clearly she shouldn't have been able to. Checking the permissions I see that the consultant has reset all permissions on the client folders to have full read/write access which includes by default the ability to delete. Now unlike the 'Modify' permission in Windows which makes it simple to assign rights to delete, etc, Server Admin isn't quite so clever....
I have been running tests to get to the bottom of it and from what I can see, I can create a folder on the Mac OSX server (Leopard) and remove all permissions from it and low and behold, users can still 1). See it and 2). Delete it. Ridiculous.
So please, before I'm found hanging in the server room by my socks, tell me why it refuses to do the most basic of tasks....