Mac Mini Server-os x server-permissions fetching

Dear All,
I am an owner of a company and have a mac mini server bougth on May 2013.
All latest updates installed.
I have a shared file for my emplyees that we use and for some users when I try to add them in a files pesmissions it says fetching.
Some it shows correctly and some it shows fetching.
There are a couple of threds here but none gives a clear answer to solve this problem.
I tried the comand+r-terminal resetpassword thing and it did not solve it.
Please help.
Reinstaling the server is not an option.
Thanks
Stefanos

Dear Davis,
Thank you for your asnwer!
The thing is that I am using file sharring from the server app and I beleive this is the right path to go when it comes to sharring a folder.
Now the fact that permissions is having the "fetching " problem is something that apple should address so that we do not have to divert form the correct way of sharring.
The threds that are open for this subject are from 2011.
When will someone from apple step in and give us a solution?
Kind Regads
Stefanos

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Just got a Mac Mini server late 2012 running mLion 10.8...out of the box...I was setting up my Server and the Wiki & profile manager went out. I surfed around and found a wipe solution (/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/wipeD B.sh) through terminal which did work. Later on they went out again after changing my host name or some ip options for the server but my Open directory started erroring as well. Tried to do the terminal thing and I got a error. So I shut-down and restart only to get the pinwheel screen. Tried safe mode (shift) to no avail. Then to lion recovery (cmd+r) which open the terminal and disk utility. ok. But from here I'm lost. I found somethings to check like fsck and chmod 775, checking/verify permissions but they didnt get it. I'm thinking its a permissions problem but I'm not sure. Any thought on what to check out from here?

6 hr reboot of mLion thru the cmd-r start up worked...it took me back down to 10.8.1 from 10.8.2...just had to reload some apple updates to the server.app and java....maybe some other things too...anything on mLion prolly...not sure yet, but all my apps and files were still there...
*The reboot didn't fix Profile Manager or Wiki in the server.app but it did get me back online and OD is ok again...
*Sifted some articles about the OD, wiki, PM stuff and my problem is similar to this https://discussions.apple.com/message/20561662#20561662
So...this thread is prolly in the wrong place srry bout that...Here's a link to the lion server board.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/servers_enterprise_software/mac_os_x_lio n_server

Mac Mini Server on my university network?

Hello,
I am a university professor and I would like to install a Mac Mini server in my laboratory to connect all my Macs (I have 4 so far). Obviously, my Macs are already connected to the Internet through the campus network (fixed IP), but since my university is an anti-Mac institution, I cannot have access to network drives and other networking goodies (we are on Novell). Anyway, that's why I want to buy a Mac Mini server to connect all my Mac and be able to share files, allowed different permissions to my undergraduate, grad, Ph.D. students, etc. plan and call meeting with iCal Server, communicate with my lab users with iChat, etc. However, I don't need email services; we use the one provided by the university.
So my question is simple : can I create my own little local network with a Mac Mini Server that will be connected to my university network/server? I am kind worried about IP conflicts and other network related problems and being called to the IT office...
Your comments will be welcome!
Thanks!

The real answer to this depends on two things:
1) whether you're just trying to do this within your lab, or you want external systems to be able to get to your services (e.g. students be able to access these resources from outside the school network)
2) whether each device in your schools' network have real-world IP addresses, or whether the network uses NAT.
If the answer to 1 is that this is only within the lab then there isn't likely to be any issue - get an IP address for your server from the network admins (which is why #2 is relevant) and you're set. The network guys would only have other involvement if you wanted to get external access working, in which case you've got to talk to them about opening holes in firewalls, etc.
If this is purely internal (or, at least, doesn't need access from outside the school network) then there isn't likely to be any problem. You could even get away without DNS, although it would be nice if you could get a sensible hostname from the DNS administrators (e.g. server.yourlab.yourschool.edu) but even without that there shouldn't be anything preventing you from running a service and having internal clients connect to it (other than policy issues, of course…). For the most part the admins wouldn't even know you're running a server.
Getting a static, non-conflicting IP address that valid for the school's network is going to be key, though.

Want to upgrade to Maverick 10.9 from 10.8.5 Mac Mini Server

I have a 2012 Mac Mini server running 10.8.5 with 2 - 1 TB drives. Sadly I have not really set up my server with anything really important. I was hoping to do a fresh install of 10.9 and then be selectve as to what I re-install including a fresh install of the server app. Then I can take my time getting it set up properly. In the past I remember having an issue with permissions I had set on some external drives from an older MAC. Can't remember all the details but if I remember correctly it kept telling me that I did not have permission to access MY files. A real PIA. What should I do to prevent this from happening unless I am remembering the issue incorrectly? Looks like the update is free but the server app is not, correct?
I just want to start fresh without locking myself out of my external DROBO drives where my pictures, music and videos reside.
Any tips or help would be appreciated.
Thanks
-Zack

Download the Mavericks installer (make a copy now, as installation will delete it), and follow this sequence to make an external bootable installer. Purchase and download Server.app version 3. Get the local DNS server configured and working first. Don't use .local as your top-level domain, and preferably use a real and registered domain that you've registered or have permission to use, or a subdomain of a real and registered domain that you have registered or have permission to use.
As for managing the file ownerships and protections on external devices, that's usually done voa chmod and chown commands (and chmod -R and chown -R) at the command line, or via the Get Info command via the GUI. Usually setting yourself as the owner of the objects is typically enough.

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