Setting access permissions on a shared drive

I am in a classroom setting with 12 Mac Pro's, running 10.5.8. I have added a second internal drive, and would like to create seperate folders for each student's data. We are on a network, and the students log on to the domain on these Mac's.
I am trying to figure out a way to give "Suzy" access to "Suzy's Folder" and "Billy" access to "Billy's Folder", but keep them from accessing each others folders. I also need for the teacher "Frank" to have access to "Suzy's Folder" and "Billy's Folder" for grading purposes, as well as the local and domain administrator.
Is there a way to do this?

First make a new group, called "teachers" or something similar. Put Frank and the admin group in this new group.
Then set up Suzy's folder like this:
Owner: Suzy - can read and write
Group: teachers - can read only (or can read and write if you wish)
Others: no access
Set up the other students' folders the same way.

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I posted this in the 365 forums. Reposting here see if it gets any traction. Thanks
I have a shared mailbox that is being used instead of public folders. Having trouble with the folders within the shared mailbox syncing to the various users. Want to move folders out of the shared
mailbox but continually run into errors regarding permissions and I must manually find the offending subfolder and set permissions.<o:p></o:p>
So, I have two questions:<o:p></o:p>
1. How can I configure the shared mailbox so that all folders that are created, regardless of which user creates them, will inherit permissions. Any folder created should automatically have permissions
set to owner for a specific security group.<o:p></o:p>
2. How can I set the permissions on these exisiting shared mailbox folders, recursively (all sub folders) ? I have tried the following:<o:p></o:p>
Get-MailboxFolder –Identity user1:\Folder -Recurse | Add-MailboxFolderPermission -User user2 -AccessRights Owner<o:p></o:p>
But I get an error that the mailbox is not found. I believe that the command above does not work on shared mailboxes.<o:p></o:p>
I also found the following, but can not seem to get it to run. I have tried to run as a ps1 file and directly in powershell - I dont get any errors.<o:p></o:p>
ForEach($f in (Get-MailboxFolderStatistics
[email protected] | Where { $_.FolderPath.Contains("/") -eq $True } ) )
$fname = "[email protected]:" + $f.FolderPath.Replace("/","\"); Add-MailboxFolderPermission $fname -User
[email protected] -AccessRights Owner
Write-Host $fname
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1000
}<o:p></o:p>
Any help is appreciated. Thanks<o:p></o:p>

First of all, why don't you just give permissions on the mailbox level instead?
If Office 365, the
Get-MailboxFolder cmdlet only works for you own mailbox. So you have to use the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics as shown in the example. You will need to adjust this to give permissions to the Root folder and its best to actually exclude some of the
folders.
The example below should work, note that there is practically no error handling there, so test it first. Also, if the access entry already exists, you will get error messages.
$mailbox = "[email protected]"
$folders = Get-MailboxFolderStatistics $mailbox | ? {$_.FolderType -ne “Root” -and $_.FolderType -ne “Recoverableitemsroot” -and $_.FolderType -ne “Audits” -and $_.FolderType -ne “CalendarLogging” -and $_.FolderType -ne “RecoverableItemsDeletions” -and $_.FolderType -ne “RecoverableItemspurges” -and $_.FolderType -ne “RecoverableItemsversions”}
Add-MailboxFolderPermission $mailbox -User [email protected] -AccessRights Reviewer #root permissions
foreach ($folder in $folders) {
$FolderPath = $folder.FolderPath.Replace("/","\").Replace([char]63743,"/") #with PowerShell v3 'fix'
$MailboxFolder = "$mailbox`:$FolderPath"
Add-MailboxFolderPermission "$MailboxFolder" -User [email protected] -AccessRights Reviewer

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Advice for setting access permissions

Hi,
I've changed my account to 'standard' and created a new admin account after reading here about security etc. Now I notice that other 'standard' users on the machine have read/write access to all my docs but I don't have access to theirs. I want to set permissions so that I have read/write access from my standard account and my admin account (as a safety measure) but that other standard users don't have access other than to my public folder.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Dual G5 2.5Ghz, Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz, iPod 40GB Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I haven't been working on the machine much since, but
needed to quickly do something (in a rush, and not
paying attention) and moved everything back again. I
now find I don't have permission to modify some of my
own folders. I ran those Terminal commands you
suggested and they now come up with a bunch of
objections, saying they can't complete the command.
It sounds like you have files/folders that are still owned by User A inside User B's home folder.
You can restore all contents of a home folder to its respective owner by logging in as an administrator, and entering these commands into Terminal:
sudo chown -R jim /Users/jim
sudo chown -R bob /Users/bob
etc.
To cut through all this, would it be sensible for me
to copy all my documents and apps to the external
hard drive, delete the originals, create an entirely
new user account both on my G5 and my Powerbook (I
frequently share files between them, mounting them on
each other's desktops, syncing, etc) with identical
names, then copy the docs and apps over to the new
users on each machine. Starting from scratch, as it
were? Would this work?
Putting documents onto an external drive is a good way to share them between user accounts. Right-click the drive, open the Get Info panel, and check the Ignore Ownership box. Then all user accounts can modify anything on the drive.
The problem with keeping shared documents on the boot volume is that by default, newly created files are read-only for everybody except their creator. If User A creates a document and wants User B to be able to edit it, User A must change the permissions manually.
Under Tiger, it's possible to use ACLs (Access Control Lists) to set up a shared folder in which all documents will be read-write for all users that you specify. This can be accomplished by:
1) Logging in as an administrator
2) Create a new folder in /Users/Shared, call it something like /Users/Shared/sharefolder
3) Open Terminal
4) enter sudo fsaclctl -p / -e
5) paste all of this into Terminal at once, replacing USERNAME with the short user name of one of the users to be given access:
sudo chmod +a "USERNAME allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,\
addsubdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directoryinherit" \
/Users/Shared/sharefolder
6) Repeat step 5, replacing USERNAME with another user's short user name
7) COPY (NOT move) any existing files you want to share to /Users/Shared/sharefolder
8) Delete the original files
Now both users can edit anything in the sharefolder, and anything added to it in the future. Note that for the permissions settings to stick, files must either be newly created inside of it, or copied to it. Previously existing files that are moved to that location will retain their original permissions and not inherit the new ones.
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How do I give myself read/write access/permissions for my external drive?

Im a brand new Mac user, so please stay with me.
I have an external drive and I can't delete, modify, ANYTHING on it. When I go to "Get Info" it says "You can only read" under sharing & permissions. How do I change this?

When you get info on the external drive, at the very bottom is a box you can check
"Ignore ownership on this volume"...
If you check that, then see if you can delete and move things around.
If that doesn't work then try clicking on the + sign and adding you as an admin so you can Read & Write.

Need insight for setting up permissions for sharing an external hd via OS X 10.6?

Hello intelligent lifeforms,
My supervisor and friend passed away a little over a year ago, and I am now trying to fill his shoes as the networking guru and could use some assistance. I'm trying to share an external hard drive that is connected to my Mac Pro OS X 10.6 workstation with a Mac Pro OS X 10.4 workstation user. I've tried setting up a Sharing Only account in my System Preferences-Accounts for the 10.4 user, and under System Preference-Sharing I turned File Sharing: On, added the Shared Folder, added the User and set priveleges as "Read Only." My intentions are for the 10.4 user to only be able to copy files from the external hard drive so as to protect the archived files being stored there from being tampered with. However, there is a User group listed as "Everyone" that I can't remove and believe it is taking precedence over the 10.4 account that I setup. I do not know where this Everyone group originated from but believe it to be some kind of default group and a major obstacle.
When the 10.4 user copies a folder from the external hd to his workstation and later copies it to a volume on our Xserve OS X 10.2 the folder shows that I do not have privileges to do anything to the folder (there is a red circle with a minus sign in it on the folder icon). Eventually, I am to backup these files to the external hd where lies my dilemma.
The volume on the Xserve being copied to is setup under Workgroup Manger-Sharing-Share Points-General: "Share this item and its contents" IS checked, Owner: admin-Read & Write, Group: staff-Read & Write (where said user has been added to the staff group), Everyone: none (I do not think the Everyone group listed on the server has anything to do with the Everyone group on my machine?), Enable disk quotas on this volume is NOT checked.
My tests show that the permissions are being carried over from the external hd Everyone group (Read Only) because even when the 10.4 user's permissions are set to Read & Write in System Preferences-Sharing-File Sharing-Users the folder still shows to be Read Only when it's copied. I've even tried setting his Desktop privileges to Read & Write hoping that when he copies the folder the permissions would be overwritten. Unfortunately, the only way to give me priveleges is for the 10.4 user to change them manually through Get Info from his workstation. This is counterproductive to the workflow I'm trying to establish. I've tried wrapping my brain around the flowchart of coordinating permissions/privileges between the different machines but to no success.
Also, a note to add is I've observed a User: Firebird Database that is listed under System Preferences-Sharing on both of our workstations. It cannot be removed either and I do not know where it is originating from.
Is there anyone out there that has any insight to this situation?
Perplexed,
carl_prepress

"Everyone" is not a Group.
Every file has underlying Access settings for System, Owner, Group, and World.
Access settings for Everyone mean everyone-else that is not explicitly mentioned in the other settings. It is the same as the Unix "World".
If you set the Priviledges for a file to Everyone=Read, then any user with any credentials can read it.
The User Categories Owner, Group, and Everyone
You can assign standard POSIX access permissions separately to three categories of users:
Owner—A user who creates a new item (file or folder) on the file server is its owner and automatically has Read & Write permissions for that folder. By default, the owner of an item and the server administrator are the only users who can change its access privileges (allow a group or everyone to use the item). The administrator can also transfer ownership of the shared item to another user.
Note: When you copy an item to a drop box on an Apple file server, ownership of the item doesn’t change, but only the owner of the drop box or root has access to its contents.
Group—You can put users who need the same access to files and folders into group accounts. Only one group can be assigned access permissions to a shared item. For more information on creating groups, see the user management guide.
Everyone—Everyone is any user who can log in to the file server: registered users and guests. Hierarchy of Permissions
If a user is included in more than one category of users, each of which has different permissions, these rules apply:
• GrouppermissionsoverrideEveryonepermissions.
• OwnerpermissionsoverrideGrouppermissions.
For example, when a user is both the owner of a shared item and a member of the group assigned to it, the user has the permissions assigned to the owner.

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How to give drive access permissions in windows using Java code. Eg. If the folder is having a read access only then the user can't copy the file into the folder and the message would be thrown.Also How to put drive access permissions .Eg If D: drive has read access only then the user can't copy the file into that drive.
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URL action to open PDF on a shared drive with credentials

I am using "Go to URL" feature of SSRS 2008 to open a PDF file saved on a shared drive. It works fine for me as I have access to the drive.
I don't want to give access to this drive to all the business users who will be using the report. There are several reports on the drive which they should not access. Is there a way to pass generic credentials with URL to allow opening the relevant document
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Hi AY,
As far as I know, we cannot pass generic credentials with URL. In your case, we can set permissions for Shared Drive to work around the issue. It is assign permission to specific user on the network.
These articles are about Give Permissions to a Shared Drive, Set Permissions for Shared Folders, you can refer to it.
http://www.ehow.com/how_6187022_give-permissions-shared-drive.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc726004.aspx
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Is there any way to set access permissions for an instance of a subform rather than the subform as a whole? Especially for a template that has a certain number of instances saved, where only instances which have been previously saved should be access="nonInteractive" but new instances should be editable.

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I have setup a Lacie Ethernet Big Disk on an ethernet network connected through a Netgear GS748T switch. I am asking people to use it as a shared backup-drive among other things. I wanted to do a complete backup of all the files on there friday to take off-site and it had a lot of trouble with permissions which were basicallly looking like this:
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