Network home dirs & Indesign cs3

I am getting the following error when trying to use InDesign as a network user (home dirs on a Mac OS X Server)
Adobe InDesign is missing required files. Please reinstall.
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/TypeSupport/.../ROMAN.TXT
Have reinstalled and made sure everything is up to date.
I found a post on here which suggested that permissions were incorrect within the network home directory itself. Could the poster please post more details of what they had to do to get things working?
It works fine as a local user.
Thank you.

Hi Stephen
I had some progress with my problem. Make sure the user has a valid Caches folder in their Library folder in their home dir. Make sure that they have read/write access to the folder and if everything looks ok, trash it, log out, log in and try again.
stu

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Much appreciated.
Edgar

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You mention ACL's. I could dive into that. Since 10.5 Apple introduced default ACL's for the spotlight indexing process. The share is rather simple, it uses mainly posix permissions because it contains the homedirectories. In that perspective, the only change (besides a new afp stack) is the spotlight ACL. I could remove it, spotlight isn't running on that share.
I don't think I can switch to SMB for the user homedir stuff. If it was a normal data share it wouldn't be a problem.
Seems I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place..

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