Network Sharing Permission,Access

[Perry]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

We share two iMacs on an Airport Extreme network. And have set up access with read/write permissions to the other iMac. However when I open a Word file from the other iMac it only gives me a Read Only version on my iMac so I cannot make changes to the file, and if I save a new file to the same folder on the other iMac the other iMac only has access to it as read only. What have i done wrong?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

We share two iMacs on an Airport Extreme network. And have set up access
with read/write permissions to the other iMac. However when I open a
Word file from the other iMac it only gives me a Read Only version on my
iMac so I cannot make changes to the file, and if I save a new file to
the same folder on the other iMac the other iMac only has access to it
as read only. What have i done wrong?

Having rw access to a folder doesn't necessarely mean you have it also
for the files in that folder. What happens if you select the file and
press command-i to check ownership and permissions. Does it say you have
rw access too?

Corentin

 

[Perry]

It just indicates "You have custom access" without specifying either my name or the actual access level. In the box below this ( in the sharing and permissions info section) it lists the other account ie. my wife in this case and shows them as 'Read Only' although this is clearly not the case. Confusing, at least to me!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

It just indicates "You have custom access" without specifying either my
name or the actual access level. In the box below this ( in the sharing
and permissions info section) it lists the other account ie. my wife in
this case and shows them as 'Read Only' although this is clearly not the
case. Confusing, at least to me!

And what if you check directly from that computer?? You should then be
able to set sharing precisely the way you want for specific files.

In what you describe though, the "custom access" statement doesn't
really imply that you can either read or write. Not very helpful (and I
don't remember ever seeing this on any of the network drives I have
access to.

Corentin

 

[Perry]

wrote:

And what if you check directly from that computer?? You should then be
able to set sharing precisely the way you want for specific files.

In what you describe though, the "custom access" statement doesn't
really imply that you can either read or write. Not very helpful (and I
don't remember ever seeing this on any of the network drives I have
access to.

Corentin

Thanks. As usual in these situations neither Apple or Microsoft wants to take responsibility, however, between them I have a partial solution. Which is to unlock each individual file one at a time, and change the permission on 'everybody' to read/write. Or add myself in as another user for each file one at a time even though I am already a user on the folder. Not very precise, and very labour intensive, but sort of works for my needs. Seems like the folder level settings do not apply to the files in the folder, hopefully the two companies will sort this out as these programs are intended to make work easier and more efficient.


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