Permissions Issue with the "Shared" Folder

Hello,
I’ve been encountering what appears to be an odd bug concerning permissions, notably during the use of the “Shared” folder (/Users/Shared). And I’ve looked around to find solutions, but haven’t come across a similar problem. Hence the post.
Here’s how it works—or, rather, how it doesn’t work. Two people are using one computer (a MacBook Pro running 10.6.3) and would like to share documents, being able to read and write to them.
From what I can understand, any document created in a folder should take on that folder’s access privileges. Since the permissions for the “Shared” folder indicate “Read and Write” privileges for all three groups (Me, staff, everyone), then any document created therein should, in principle, allow members of all three groups to read and write to it.
Well, to cut a long story short, it doesn’t. Whenever a document is created in the “Shared” folder (with Pages or TextEdit, for example), the “Get Info” window shows that only the user who created it has “Read and Write” privileges. Members of the other two groups only have “Read” privileges.
I ran the “ls –l” command in Terminal on the “Shared” folder, and here is an example of the output for one of the files:
–rw–r– –r– –@ 1 username staff 342 31 Jan 17:08 Test.rtf
As far as I can understand, this shouldn’t be happening. I’ve tried logging out and logging back in, rebooting, and repairing permissions from the original installation disk (no problems detected), but nothing changes and I still encounter the same scenario.
Has anyone run across this issue before? And would anyone know what might be wrong, or even how to fix it?
Thanks to anyone who might be able to shed some light on this detail to help me understand what is going on here.
Best regards,
Stephen

I suppose you are working on the Mac?
Which version of the OS?
Go to the finder, hold down the ALT key and call G, there select the User Library (the one without a shortcut, this entry is without the ALT key not visible).
Check the permissions of the preferences folder. Select the folder CMD+I
You must have permission to read and write.

Similar Messages

Verity Disk Permissions Issues with the New OS X Mountain Loin?

Has anyone run into any issue when you try to Verity Disk Permissions with the New OS X Mountain Loin?

Thank you, Pondini, I appreciate the link also.
Regards,
peter
Pondini wrote:
Texasbounds wrote:
Here is the message that i am receiving “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
That's not a problem. See Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

Calling all you mini ipod whizzes!! - issues with the exclamation folder!

Please help! My mini ipod won't charge or turn on. It's 18 months old now. It is not on hold, I have tried to reset it, charge it and plug it into my computer, all to na avail. When i plug it into the mains to charge, the apple sign comes up briefly, but then the folder sign comes up. I plugged it into my brothers computer, which has his itunes software on, and it said 'do not disconnect' for a period of time, then got stuck on a tick with 'ok to disconnect' on the screen. Again no luck. I would be really grateful for any help you can give me! I am training to do race for life in a couple of weeks and miss my ipod!!

Your silver bullet of resolving your iPod issue – is to restore your iPod to factory settings.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983

Privileges/permissions issue with drop box/archive folder

Hi there,
I'm having an issue with the permissions on a folder on my iMac. I'm running Leopard. Here at our office, I have my computer set up just like everyone else; within my drop box I have an folder titled "Archive", and within the archive folder I have a folder named after the boss' external hard drive. When the files are on her hard drive, she moves them into this folder so that we know they're completed and can be burned to disc.
For some reason though, she can no longer access this folder in my drop to drag anything into it. One day I found something online that told me to set something through my system preferences. It worked, but I can't remember what I did! The folder seems to have "relapsed" and once again, she can't access it. "Get Info" doesn't work, no matter how many times I change the permissions- it always says everyone should be able to read and write. I've also tried changing permissions and shared folders in the "Sharing" section of system preferences. It just doesn't seem to want to go. I think she might be running Tiger; is there a possibility that that's the issue?
Any thoughts? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I would check the system preferences / sharing / file sharing .. highlight file sharing (leftside) and setting to edit changes will be on right side for 10.6.x S Leopard. I would look for a somewhat similar setup in Tiger for its file sharing settings.

Hi! I have a WD my book external hard drive plugged into my imac and I want to share it over my network with my apple tv. I went into system preferences sharing, checked "file sharing" and added my external hard drive to the shared folder. So now it is

Hi!
I have a WD my book external hard drive plugged into my imac and I want to share it over my network with my apple tv. I went into system preferences > sharing, checked "file sharing" and added my external hard drive to the shared folder. So now it is listed in "shared folders" but under "users" everything is grayed out (it says "read and write" for "everyone" - but "read and write" is grayed out, and it doesn't let me add or subtract users). Now I can access all of the folders I shared from my imac except for the externalhard drive. What's going on?

Hi RRFS!,thanks for help.I forgot to tell that hard drive has 2 partitions 1:format :Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and that works properly,2:format:MS-DOS (FAT32) and when i "get info" for both :first has shering & permitions:You can read and write - with name and privilege, second has shaing & prermissions:You can read and write- without name and privilege

Issue with the presence indicator in list/library web part.

When viewing a user field (Created By, Modified By or a custom People column) through the list web part (either through the default page /Forms/AllItems.aspx or a custom web part page using a list/library) the presence indicator always says presence unknown.
However if I go to the Site Permissions on the same site, or My Site or a custom page using a modified core search results web part I wrote the presence indicator works fine. I can't find any errors being reported on the server.
Looking at the rendered code the list web part generates:
<IMG name=imnmark width=12 height=12 title="" class=ms-imnImg id=imn_48683,type=smtp alt="No presence information" src="/_layouts/images/blank.gif" border=0 sip="[email protected]">
Locations where the presence indicator works the code is:
<IMG name=imnmark width=12 height=12 title="" class=ms-imnImg id=imn{20140822-1752-098D-8C11-188AD0B8B8B6},type=sip alt=Available src="http://portal.mydomain.com/_layouts/images/imnon.png" border=0 sip="[email protected]" valign="middle">
It appears that the List web part is not detecting that the users have a sip address and they appear to be rendered using smtp instead. It's also odd that the list web part is pulling the correct sip address while the one that works is pulling the
email address, not the sip address stored in the user profile. I spent considerable time going through the xslt to try and figure how the tag is rendered but I haven't been able to figure it out.
We are using Cisco Jabber 9.2.3 for IM, I don't know if that should make a difference or not. It's working fine in other parts of SharePoint and in Outlook. Running SharePoint Dec 2011 CU (14.0.6114.5000) with MS Office 2010 SP2 installed on the client. Tested
in IE 9.0/10/11.
Any ideas?

We don't have a Lync server and I don't have the software available. Are you saying just having Lync installed even though it won't work might help?
I did some more digging and believe that this is an issue with the XsltListViewWebPart. If I go to the UserInformationList the web part used to render the list is the ListViewWebPart and the presence indicator works there. Also our environment
was migrated from 2007 and there are a number of pages that are using the old ListViewWebPart and the presence indicator works fine in this part. If edit the page and add the same list library to it, it's added as a XsltListViewWebPart and the presence
indicator does not work.
The presence control is not rendered by the xsl files used by the webpart. I modified the xsl to display the raw xml and the html code for the presence is part of the xml. I'm guessing this can't be changed and is part of how SharePoint is rendering
the data for the XsltListViewWebPart. You can see the Editor and CheckoutUser lines have the html code embedded in the data.
<Row
ID="60"
PermMask="0x7fffffffffffffff"
HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type=""
File_x0020_Type="xlsx"
HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type.File_x0020_Type.mapall="icxlsx.png|Microsoft Excel|SharePoint.OpenDocuments"
HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type.File_x0020_Type.mapcon="SharePoint.OpenDocuments"
HTML_x0020_File_x0020_Type.File_x0020_Type.mapico="icxlsx.png"
serverurl.progid="1http://myparkersdev.domain.com/sites/BPIT/_layouts/xlviewer.aspx?id=/sites/BPIT/Shared%20Documents/Database%20Sizes.xlsx"
ile_x0020_Type.progid="SharePoint.OpenDocuments.3"
File_x0020_Type.url="FALSE"
FSObjType="0"
FileRef="/sites/BPIT/Shared Documents/Database Sizes.xlsx"
FileRef.urlencode="%2Fsites%2FBPIT%2FShared%20Documents%2FDatabase%20Sizes%2Exlsx"
FileRef.urlencodeasurl="/sites/BPIT/Shared%20Documents/Database%20Sizes.xlsx"
FileLeafRef="Database Sizes.xlsx"
FileLeafRef.Name="Database Sizes"
FileLeafRef.Suffix="xlsx"
CheckoutUser="<a href='javascript:;' onclick='IMNImageOnClick(event);return false;' class='ms-imnlink'><img name='imnmark' class='ms-imnImg' title='' border='0' height='12' width='12' src='/_layouts/images/blank.gif' alt='No presence information' sip='[email protected]' id='imn_77,type=smtp'/></a><a onclick="GoToLink(this);return false;" href="/sites/BPIT/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=526">Ian Howe</a>"
CheckoutUser.id="526"
CheckoutUser.title="Ian Howe"
CheckoutUser.span="<a onclick="GoToLink(this);return false;" href="/sites/BPIT/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=526">Ian Howe</a><img border="0" height="1" width="3" src="/_layouts/images/blank.gif"/><a href='javascript:;' onclick='IMNImageOnClick(event);return false;' class='ms-imnlink'><img name='imnmark' class='ms-imnImg' title='' border='0' height='12' width='12' src='/_layouts/images/blank.gif' alt='No presence information' sip='[email protected]' id='imn_78,type=smtp'/></a>"
CheckedOutUserId="526"
IsCheckedoutToLocal="0"
Created_x0020_Date="0;#2014-08-22 09:47:01"
Created_x0020_Date.ifnew=""
ContentTypeId="0x0101000AE0EC76CD0DB743B42D2FE022EAA6DC"
Modified="8/22/2014 10:51 AM"
Editor="<a href='javascript:;' onclick='IMNImageOnClick(event);return false;' class='ms-imnlink'><img name='imnmark' class='ms-imnImg' title='' border='0' height='12' width='12' src='/_layouts/images/blank.gif' alt='No presence information' sip='[email protected]' id='imn_79,type=smtp'/></a><a onclick="GoToLink(this);return false;" href="/sites/BPIT/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=526">Ian Howe</a>"
Editor.id="526"
Editor.title="Ian Howe"
Editor.span="<a onclick="GoToLink(this);return false;" href="/sites/BPIT/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=526">Ian Howe</a><img border="0" height="1" width="3" src="/_layouts/images/blank.gif"/><a href='javascript:;' onclick='IMNImageOnClick(event);return false;' class='ms-imnlink'><img name='imnmark' class='ms-imnImg' title='' border='0' height='12' width='12' src='/_layouts/images/blank.gif' alt='No presence information' sip='[email protected]' id='imn_80,type=smtp'/></a>"
ecb.dispex="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','FALSE','SharePoint.OpenDocuments.3','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','1http://myparkersdev.domain.com/sites/BPIT/_layouts/xlviewer.aspx?id=/sites/BPIT/Shared%20Documents/Database%20Sizes.xlsx','526','526','1','0','0x7fffffffffffffff','','')" />
I just find it strange that the old ListViewWebPart works. Our SP environment has not been patched to the latest version, I'll try that next and see if it makes a difference.

IPhoto Library in the Shared folder?

Isn't it possible to place the iPhoto library in the shared folder and then under each user account, link their iPhoto library to it, granting them both full permissions to the files?
I know I've done this once before, but I recall I had to do something tricky with permissions, possibly involving the Terminal

If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc. then:
Quit iPhoto in both accounts
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external HD set to ignore permissions. You could also use a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.
In each account in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Finally: If you’re comfortable in the Terminal, and understand File Permissions, ACL’s etc., some folks have reported success using the process outlined here . (Note this page refers to 10.4, but it should also work on 10.5). If you’re not comfortable with the terminal, and don’t know an ACL from the ACLU, then you’re best doing something else... Oh, and the warning about simultaneous users still applies.
Regards
TD

Can't expand the folders under the shared folder in catalog new analysis?

Hello All,
When i am trying to create a new Analysis and in the catalog section when i expand the shared folder i can only see one level the folders under neath the shared folders cannot expand the folders under the parent folders. for example i have three main folders under shared folders Finance, Marketing and Customer when i try to expand the finance folder it doesn't expand and when i try to open marketing it expands by it doesn't show anything in those folders but when i try to open the folders directly from home --> catalog--> shared folders--> Finance--> ..... it shows every thing under those folders folders sub folders and all that stuff. I am hoping it is not something to do with permissions because i am able to open here. Please advice

If you do not have an object saved in the folder it will not dispaly the folder when you are in Answers navigating through the folder structure. Ensure you have saved at least one object (Prompt/Report) in the folder.

Migration Assistant and permissions issues with new Mac Pro

Hi There,
I've not had any significant issues with Migration Assistant in the past but I can't create a reliable system with my new Mac Pro.
After using Migration Assistant during the initial setup, my user account wasn't even transferred. I tried restarting but in the end, I followed these instructions to reset and run the assitant again: http://stationinthemetro.com/2013/11/10/make-mavericks-re-run-the-setup-assistan t
I've just finished running it for a second time, and while the user account is now on my new system, there are so many permissions issues that the system is unusable (I can't even run Safari). Creative cloud, 1Password, safari, Dropbox are all apps that give me Disk i/o or permissions errors.
If I look in the user folder, many directories within it have a red minus icon. I've tried fixing permissions using Disk Utility but something is not right.
In the past, the new system just boots like the old one but this time round, it asked me to create an account after Migration Assistant had finished - is this normal? I used the same username and password as before but I'm not sure Migration Assistantis working properly.
Does anyone know a full-proof way of fixing and transferring my account without having to spend hours downloading OSX for a full erase and install?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ben

Thanks for the reply,
I didn't understand exactly what to put into AppleScript sorry (never used it before) - so I just ran the following from the Terminal:
$ echo $UID
$ sudo chown -R 503 ~
And restarted - everything works now - thanks heaps.
What had happened and is this something I did or did Migration Assistant just get confused?
I have 3 new Mc Pros to setup on Monday so just want to ensure those are hassle free.
Cheers
Ben

Permissions issue with Word documents & Server?

My workgroup is running into an error with OS X Server on a Mavericks Mac mini & Word.
Word Documents stored in the shared folder accessible by the 5 workgroup computers keep saying they're read-only and can't be saved.
We check over and over, and the documents aren't opened on any other computers.
Any ideas why this is happening? We keep eating up more storage space because we need to duplicate and version all our documents.
I know, I know. Use Pages. Trust me, I do, but there are others in this office that still cling to Word because it's familiar.

Hi JC,
I've seen this issue before even with Tiger Server 10.4, it is a problem with Microsoft Word and Office, which uses a "safe" place on the servershare .TemporaryItems where it stores the file based on the user local ID which usually is 501 or 502 when a local administrator is present.
You can find more info and some solutions here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16250977#16250977
The issue is explained here and still very much alive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23804?viewlocale=en_US
And the solution presented here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/cantsavetoserver.html
This will take some work to change local user ids or just create 2,3,4,5 or 6 new local accounts and transfer their data if necessary that will change their UserID's as well.
Goodluck!
Jeffrey

Permissions issue with OSX 10.5.8

This is likely a newbie question. I am new to OS X, but I am familiar with Linux/Unix Terminal usage.
I have a permissions issue with OSX 10.5.8.
I cannot use basic commands on the Terminal, such as mkdir, on my own home directory. I get an error message saying the operation is not permitted.
I have traced the probable culprit down to default ACL permissions settings.
So after hours of research on Google, I found out that ACL are turned on by default in OSX 10.5.8.
But I don't know how to safely use it yet, so I need help.
I'm not quite familiar with ACL, so I need to know how to add myself safely and securely to modify my home directory.
The command is with chmod. Can this also be done via the GUI?
What is the option for chmod to modify my home directory?
Is it:
*$ cd ~*
*$ chmod +a "user:john allow write" .*
*$ chmod +a "user:john allow delete" .*
Alternatively, if I use the "chmod -N ." command on the home directory, will that safely remove all ACL? Or is that recipe for a major security hole in my machine?
Thanks!

There are many people on this board that know way more than I do. Sometimes there is the tendency to copy/paste some kind of boilerplate response though, especially if there isn't quite enough information about a particular problem, so just keep trying.
You should be able to add anything you want to your user directory without the use of any ACL entries. The purpose for the *deny delete* entries on the system created folders would probably be to reduce customer service calls about "accidentally" deleting some of the folders that the system expects to be there - it does not affect creating items.
To verify that there aren't other attributes getting in the way, open the /Applications/Utilities/Terminal application, copy/paste the following command(s) into the window (there is a trailing space), drag the problem folder(s) from a Finder window to the Terminal window (this will paste the path), press return and post back with the results:
/usr/bin/who am i; /bin/ls -leO@d
These commands will display the ownership and permissions, including any ACL entries and extended attributes.
On my Leopard user folder the permissions are drwxr-xr-x+ with an ACL entry *group:everyone deny delete*. These permissions allow read/write for me, read for everyone else, and an administrator authentication will be needed to delete the folder. These are similar to what you posted earlier, so maybe there is something else going on in there.

Anybody else having issues with the new 1.1??

For some reason, I have encountered two issues already.. Whenever I'm exporting my galleries as web pages, nothing happens! It creates a null folder that I specify but then doesn't export any photos or html pages.. If I delete the folder and do it again, the exact same way, for some miracle it then begins to export.. There is no logical explanation and its clear that its a bug..
Also, when exporting multiple images into CS2, that also fails for me.. It only opens up one picture and even though the others are selected, it doesn't seem to do the trick.. Its not my computer because i have a brand new quad w/ 4 gigs of memory.. I didn't encounter either of these issues with the older version..
Anybody else??

I tried both, and was successfull both times.
External Edit:
1. I selected 2 images (D200 RAW images).
2. Right clicked to get the contextual menu and selected Open with External Editor (I have my prefs set up for Photoshop).
3. Both images opened in Photoshop.
I can't image it being system specific. What camera and file type are you using?

Issues with the Surface Pro 3's pen in Photoshop CS6

I used photoshop CS6 with no problems on my old computer that was connected to a graphics tablet.
However, I recently bought a new windows computer called the Surface Pro 3. Everything works perfectly with the trackpad and touch, but I've had some issues with the Surface pen.
The pen can draw on the canvas, but whenever I click something on any of the windows with the pen, the entire application freezes and I would have to click the computer's taskbar at the bottom to unfreeze the application.
It's impossible to work like this. Is there any solution to fix this problem? It says that the version of photoshop I have is Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.1.2

If you have Photoshop CS6 version 13.1.2 which is the Subscription version of Photoshop, You shoule Isstall Photoshop CC 2014 on your surface Pro 3. It will work without problems on the surface Pro 3 and you will also have the option have the option to use Photoshop CC 2014 preference 2x UI to scale Photoshop's UI up in size on your Surface Pro 3.
If you do not have a subscription the Perpetual version of windows CS6 should be version 13.0.1.3. In that case the only way to scale Photoshop UI is to have windows do it. You would need to to update your windows 8.1 registry and add an external Photoshop manifest file in your Photoshop CS6 folder. To get the Surface Pro 3 pen to work with Photoshop you would need to install NTig pen device drivers the support the wintab APIs.
You will not be able to use Photoshop without a keyboard popping up the windows onscreen keyboard is too cumbersome. You can use a utility like Touchkey to create Overlay touch keys on Photoshop and use Photoshop without a keyboard.
The differece betweek Adobe 2XUI scaling an windows scaling ise windows scaling scalet the image areas as well as the Photoshops UI
A couple of touchkey overlat keyboards could look something like this

Everytime I open Safari on my MacBook Pro a pop-up window from my Finder menu, with the Applications highlighted on the left in the favorites column with the Resources folder highlighted comes up and locks my Safari page until I manually close the Resourc

Everytime I open Safari on my MacBook Pro a pop-up window from my Finder menu, with the Applications highlighted on the left in the favorites column with the Resources folder highlighted comes up and locks my Safari page until I manually close the Resources window then I have to refresh the internet search address line at the top of Safari. Can someone tell me how to stop this. It started after a software upgrade. It didn’t do that before. Thank you.

A few thoughts for diagnosis/testing purposes:
Have you recently run the disk utility and repaired HD and permissions? If not do so.
Boot into the Safe mode - hold down shift key on boot - and see if the problems are still there. Some functions won't work but see if anything odd happens.
Check your startup items. Get rid of them temporarily.
Create a new user account and see if the problems occur with the new account.
Lastly, be sure your backup is up-to-date.

If I move my iTunes media folder to the Shared folder....

Hello
I'd like to share my music libary with my wife's user account on our MacBook Pro so she can get some of my music onto her iPhone. I've read the article on the Apple site as well as similar articles from other reputable Mac user websites and it seems simple enough.
I move the iTunes media folder into the shared folder and then redirect iTunes in the two separate accounts towards the new library locations whilst unticking the box 'Copy to the iTunes Media folder when adding to library' and then the same library is used by iTunes for both user accounts.
My question is: what are the implications for Apps when doing this? This method allows us to share music which is simple enough because she doesn't have any so the new library will just be my music.
But we both have our own collection of apps bought and downloaded through our individual accounts. Her apps are in the iTunes Media folder in her own account whilst mine are in mine. If we share an iTunes media folder as our shared libary, how does the storage and synchronisation of apps function?
Thank you for any help..

Sorted - worked it out myself.
In case it's of any use to anyone else, I moved my iTunes Media folder into the Shared section of the drive and let iTunes know this which has had absolutely no effect on my library or my access to my media.
My wife's iTunes simply has access to my media and she can add it to her own library (which already contains her own apps) without moving the media from my shared folder because I deselected that 'copy to itunes when adding to library' box.
Now she has her own media folder and library but can access my stuff...

Permissions Issue with the "Shared" Folder

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for