Re: SFU3.5 and getting permissions to work

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BobMarley wrote: 
I have a unix server connecting to an NFS mount point on my
Windows Server. Whenever a file is written there by the unix server,
it typically comes across as having permissions only of SYSTEM and
read. So no one is ever able to access the file

 How can i have it come across so that it is a file readable by
Windows users? I thought it did that by default in earlier versions,
but maybe 3.5 changed that?

We use SFU 3.0 and it a major pain in the ... neck! When you add a file or change permissions on the Unix it creates a new Windows ACL. This means that all users/groups with permissions on that directory and the files in it become inaccessible on the Windows for almost all users. The new acl seems to wipe all existing acls and since it is theoretically inherited (don't know why) all you see in the permissions is grey blank boxes which you can't change.

What we have to do periodically is take ownership of the directory and all sub-directories and files and set the permissions back again.

Though having said that, have you checked the mapping between Windows users and groups and Unix users and groups?

Cheers,

Cliff

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