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From: bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Trouble with AppleShare
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.211509.15584@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Date: 6 Oct 90 21:15:09 GMT
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In article <84473@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> elk@python.cis.ohio-state.edu 
(Edwin L King) writes:
>   The problem is that AppleShare makes new folders private by default.
> I have a bunch of people who are probably never going to remember to
> reset their permissions every time they create a folder. Nor would I
> want them to. We create a lot of folders -- we run a Visionary color
> system and package our EPS and other graphics format files together
> with the pages they go with so nearly every page has its own folder.
>   What I could do, and I will do it if I get no other solution, is
> just to make all the machines auto logon as Guest.
> 
>   However, I liked having a different logon for each machine so I
> could quickly look at the Server screen and see what machines were
> logged on.
> 
>  You'd think there was some simple way of changing the default
> permissions for new folders. but it doesn't look like there is.
>   So how about a hard way? Are the permissions contained in a resource
> I can modify with resedit? Or is there some kind of patch I can do so
> that a folder defualts to Group or Everyone permission?
> 

Use CE software's cdev, FolderShare.  It allows you to set default 
privileges on any new folder you create on an AppleShare fileserver.  
Believe it's freeware (got mine from my Apple rep), but CE also bundles it 
with some of their software such as the Mock Utilities.

Ben Schmidt              Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.    Ph: (613) 763-3906
Information Technology     P.O. Box 3511, Station C      FAX:(613) 763-3283
bschmidt@bnr.ca         Ottawa Ontario Canada K1Y 4H7