Can't open Pages files when a particular user has saved them

Can anyone help with this topic: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2288596
We have one user whose Pages files nobody else can open, edit or copy when he saves them to our server. Somehow the files are not inheriting the correct permissions.

I got the same issue but with some new insight.
I got a MacPro with 10.5.8 server on it to serve 8 users on 10.5 and 10.6. The root sharepoint is nest within a folder on a separated volume from the OS. I made a pretty simple permissions structure at first, all users is member of a group, and I giving full access to that group thru ACL and set the heritance to everything.
When I copie a new file on the server from the finder, everything is OK. But when I created a new documents on the server by saving it from a another software (Like pages or Textedit). The new file doesnt inherite the ACL and everybody else beside the users who created that new files is read only.
According to my tests, the ACL appear to be propagate on new file only from finder manipulation.

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Can't open files when a particular user has saved them

We have one user whose Pages files nobody else can open, edit or copy when he saves them to our server. Somehow the files are not inheriting the correct permissions.
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fruhulda wrote:
Are they password protected?
Otherwise you need to change the permissions for the users or folder. Do you have an Company administrator setting up these things?
Not password protected. I am the administrator. I use a sledge hammer to fix the problem at the moment, which is to propagate the correct permissions from the folder above on the server each time it happens.
The user/permissions setup on the server is correct as far as I can tell. He has a Standard user account and belongs to all Groups.
The only difference I can tell is that he's on an Intel-based computer (whereas the rest of us on PowerPCs), although that could be a red herring.

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