ACL group permissions not propagating

Question

I have a group of designers that are connected to X Server running Snow Leopard.
I have placed them in a group, "MarComm"
I have granted everyone full read/write access. ( I can trust them all)
I have tried to propagate these permissions..I saved the changes and restarted server.
For some reason there are 2 sets of permissions.
1) full access (desired configuration)
2) "custom" access
This "custom" access does erratic things..for ex:
Allows the designer to pull off a job folder containing 12 items. He has permission to use 8 items, but not the remaining 4.
Perhaps I need a step by step tutorial on how to create a proper "group" and to propagate permissions. I understand that the ACL should take precedence over the POSIX. I am not well-versed in using the terminal, but I am a careful person, and willing to try it.
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Setting up groups in WGM is pretty fool proof.  What I would try first is to remove all of the ACL's for the folder in question first.
Ensure that all of the files and folders within your folder have ACL's that can be removed.  If not, then you'll have to clear the ACL's on each, one at a time.
The command to clear the ACL's from a folder and it's subfile and folders looks like this:
sudo chmod -R -N /path/to/folder
If you want to just remove an ACL from one file or folder, remove the -R from the command.
To write an ACL and have it apply to all folders within looks like this: (two commands, one to add read and one to add write permissions)
sudo chmod -R +a "groupname allow read" /path/to/file/
sudo chmod -R +a "groupname allow write" /path/to/file/
HTH!
-Graham