Mounting Group Folders

Wondering if Snow Leopard machines have issues mounting (connecting) group folders to Lion Server? Has anyone had any issues.
I just finished setting up a new Lion Server and currently my Snow Leopard Machines are having issues mounting the group folders, I believe all the permissions are correct. All that shows up in the users dock is a question mark, even have tried to connect via an admin account with zero luck, keep on getting connection failed.
Anyone else have any similiar issues? Does Lion and Snow Leopard play nice together?
Had no isses last year with the same set up minus the Lion Server.
Thanks for any input

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I'll assume that your Macs are all bound to your OS X Server, and that by workgroups you mean Open Directory groups. (Let me know if this is not the case!)
In Server Admin click on File Sharing > Volumes > Browse. Navigate to where you want the group folders to exist (potentially the pre-existing Groups folder at the root of the hard drive). Click "New Folder" to create the folder. Then click "Share" to make the folder a share point. In the lower half of Server Admin click on "Share Point" (while your newly created share is selected in the upper part) and set it to only allow AFP (this will restrict it to being used with Macs, like you want). Once you've done that, click "Permissions," click the + button, and drag the folder's group under "ACL." Set that group to read & write access. At this point you will have a share for a particular group in which all group members have r/w access. (Make sure to click "Save" whenever prompted)
Now, to get them to show up on the users' dock: In Workgroup Manager, select one of your groups, click Preferences, then Dock, and check the box next to "Add group folder." Click save and you're all set!

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I just discovered that auto save enabled applications like Text Edit cannot save to /Groups directories on OS X Server.
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I still don't see where to DELETE or even add names to established group folders.

i have just downloaded thunderbird and imported my address book. i want to delete some old group folders and add some names to other old group folders. all the options to delete are greyed out.
when trying to add a name to a group, i can add it and click ok, but when i go back to it, it isn't there.
also, a new group i put together is stored under the "personal address book", but will not save into a new group. the folder shows up - twice in fact under the "Mac OSX Address book" with no addresses in either of them...AND, i can't delete them or a few old groups that i no longer want.
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I have an Intel Quad 2.66Ghz XServe with 10.4.10 Server installed. I am trying to set up two different groups. There are two folders on the Shared RAID HD. Group A need to have access to both folders, whilst Group B has access to only one of them.
I have set up two different groups, and which users apply to which group. I have then set up the shraes on the HD, and with the shares I have applied which group has access to which folder.
But for some reason when I log on from the workstations, even though I have set up what they have access to, both Group A and Group B have access to all the files.
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Hi,
I would like to set up time machine for a shared group folder on the server. I would like users to be able to use time machine from clients to see backup history of files in the group folder. Is this possible? How?
Gregor

+...would like users to be able to use time machine from clients to see backup history of files in the group folder. Is this possible? How?+
Yes. This is possible, but it isn't touted as one of the features that sells Mac OS X Server. The advertised Time Machine server solution is to host an AFP share point on the Mac OS X Server system which clients then use as a Time Machine backup destination, similar to Time Capsule.
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You'll need to configure Time Machine on the server itself first, just as if it were a client. Open System Preferences, and use the Time Machine pane to choose the Backup volume as the server's backup destination. You'll want to make sure that only the contents of the Data disk (the disk housing the Group-Folder) are backed up. Skip anything on your boot disk, as you're using Time Machine to back up just the share points. Let the server at least start its first backup, which will create the following directory:
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I want to use the server we use in a small lab as a client as well. Most of the collaborative work is done in a group folder, which works perfectly on all clients.
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