Re: Word "save to server" bug solved

It's one of those issues (there are several) where Word Mac has not yet
adapted itself to the multi-user environment of OS X and still goes on as it
used to back in OS 8. (Having a single Templates folder by default in
/Applications instead of in the user's MUD folder or somewhere else in the
~/user sector is another.) I'm pretty sure this will get sorted out properly
in the next major version. But until then...

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From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:51:47 +1000
Conversation: Word "save to server" bug solved
Subject: Re: Word "save to server" bug solved

Hi Dave:

Got it! Thanks :-)

Sorry, I'm a PC user who got lost in here. PCs won't easily let you do that
-- they attempt to pass the local machine login back to the server, and if
it's not unique they get spat out at that point.

So Beth: Yes, I would add this to our growing saga on the website, and
include the extra information Dave just provided, for the ignorant like me!

{Writes 100 lines} I *will* learn UNIX. I *will* learn UNIX....

Cheers

On 26/6/06 12:37 AM, in article
1151246265.068965.187860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Provine"
<dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Chris Ridd wrote:
On 2006-06-25 13:32:17 +0100, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word
Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Hi Dave:

That looks interesting :-)

But I do not understand: Under what circumstances would a user log in to
the
server with a User ID the same as another user?

I can't imagine a network administrator setting things up that way. Am I
missing something here?

A more likely situation is where you're using the standard OS install
to set up a local user account for someone; that will get the uid of
501. Then you set the machine up with your file server... You can
immediately see that you'll get the same uid assigned to different
people pretty quickly.

NFS (ie Unix-y) networks require that uids are managed centrally, but
SMB networks will not, nor will (I suspect) AppleShare-based ones.

Cheers,

Chris

Yes, Chris, you are correct. The first local user on every OS X machine
is UID 501. So unless everyone is using network logins, which is quite
uncommon in smaller places, the problem comes up. It never, ever
happens where network logins are used or where everyone auths against
AD, since their UID is based on the server, and therefore must be
unique.

John, the users are NOT logging into the server with their local UID.
They login with their server UID, but since they logged into their
personal Mac with a local account, their UID as far as Word understands
is 501, and that's the UID it uses to name the temp files directory.
Does that clear it up for you?


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