[Cialug] Need assistance with chown and find commands

[David Champion]

I have nothing nice to say about trying to integrate Macs into a business
environment... so... uh...

-dc


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Sean Flattery <sean.r.flattery at gmail.com>wrote:

> I used to admin an office with Macs and Windows with a Linux samba server
> and ran into similar issues. My problem was the Mac OS didn't respect the
> smb.conf settings to force file ownership so I ended up running a cron job
> for each group's shared folder chowning and chmoding everything within. I
> didn't know about ACLs at the time, but that could work for you.
>
> Why can't all these devices just get along?
>
> Also thanks to Business Solver for hosting and feeding us last meeting!
>
> ..................
> >The reason for this command is because we have two different OS's running
> in the office.  OS X and Windows, Adobe Photoshop creates an issue with
> Permissions when a Mac user creates a file.  Only Mac users can open the
> file from the server and modify and save changes.  If a Windows user
> creates an image file the Mac users cannot save any modifications to that
> file directly to the server.  The Mac users have to copy the file to their
> desktop, modify, save, and then delete the old file because they don't have
> write permissions to replace the existing file.  The same is for PC users
> when a file is created by a Mac user.
> >
> > This is a known issue with Adobe and their work around doesn't work
> because it's PC specific not a Global fix on the server.  I attempted the
> work around on the Mac, (Adobe says it's because of Samba) however nothing
> has changed.  The Work around didn't work.  The next attempted fix is this
> solution.  Running a cron job nightly to find all of the files that the Mac
> user (userA) has created and chown those files to a PC user (UserB).  The
> Mac user won't need access to these files again after they are created
> however PC users do, so this fix would be right for our environment.  And
> if the Mac user does need access, then they have to copy the file to their
> desktop and create a new one.  Which the nightly cron job will take care of
> the permissions.
> >
> > I've also thought of changing the permissions inside of fstab to try and
> force the gid permissions.  This failed as well because it's not a server
> problem.  The Problem is with the Mac's & Adobe.  The gid=grpA,mode=664
> didn't work.
> >
> > I'm up for ideas if someone has a better solution.
> >
> > Thank you for the read and I appreciate all the help.
> >
> > Kelly L. Slaugh // Systems Administrator
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