POSIX permissions on SharePoints

Hi,
I am in the process of setting up my very first OS X Server. First problem I just can't figure out: I have a Sharepoint for one of the groups I set up. Everybody in that group can mount it, write/read etc, its working wonderfully. But one of the users in that group also needs to run POSIX programs on the server itself, so I made a local account on the server for him to log in on (and paired it with the appropriate server account, whatever that actually does). From here he can read all the files, but can't delete or write anything in that share. From what I understand, the access through the Sharepoint is using ACLs, while the local POSIX apps are using POSIX permissions and those are set to be r/w to the owner (which might or might not be him) and read-only for group and others. Any change made through the mount would again set the permissions that way. The programs won't work that way..
The only "solution" I can think of would be to change the POSIX-permissions around every time its needed, but that is less than ideal.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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...so I made a local account on the server for him to log in on (and paired it with the appropriate server account, whatever that actually does). From here he can read all the files, but can't delete or write anything in that share.
If you have the user in a local account you can add him to the local group that 'owns' the folder and he will have the same permissions as the local group. If the folder is owned by the local 'admin' group, which would be the default, you may want to change the local group ownership to a different local group and add the user to that group. The ACL on the folder would still apply for the AFP users so their access would unaffected.

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