User Accounts Permissions Problem!

Question

Hi,
Have a new MacBook here with 2 user accounts on it. Both users are administrators. I tried copying a folder of files from the User A's desktop into the Drop Box of User B. That went fine. But when I logged out of User A's account and into User B's, User B could open the folder and files but couldn't change/write to them.
So, I tried changing the permissions of User B's home folder, by clicking Get Info. User B's home folder AND enclosed items are now:
User A - Read & Write
User B - Read & Write
everyone - Read only
This solved the problem of modifying that folder and files that came from User A's account. However, now some new problems have emerged. For example, User B now can't trash widgets from their dashboard.
Have I done the wrong thing? What are you supposed to do so that BOTH users on the same computer automatically have the permission to read and write to files and folders they exchange with each other?

Answer 1

Open up a Terminal and type "ls -l /Users/" (without the quotation marks; the stroke means "ell" not "I" as in "I think, therefore I am"). The output should be a list containig a line similar to
drwx------+ 31 <your user name> staff 1054 17 Mai 08:54 <your user name>
The important part is "drwx------" at the beginning. It informs you that it's a directory (d) and that the owner has (r)ead-, (w)rite- and e(x)ecute-access (the last meaning that you can change to that directory in a terminal using the cd command). The following lines indicate that neither the group "staff" nor anyone else has rwx-access. To grant full access to everybody the line would have to read "drwxrwxrwx". To change permissions in the terminal you can use the command chmod (for syntax help type "man chmod"). Let me know if that solved your question.
floba
Message was edited by: floba