Hello,
when switching from OS9 to OSX our users seemed to be a little confused about the public folder, behaving differently as they were used to from just sharing any folder you liked on OS9.
So what I did was deleting the Dropbox and giving full read and write access to the public folder to anyone, which helped.
But there is a problem which I am not sure if it is connected to that. Quite often it happens, that users copy files to another users public folder and there it cannot be opened or if it can, it can't be deleted anymore until you manually change the ownership and the file permissions. Why does that happen?
Files put into the public folder of another user should be created with ownership to the computer owner and not someone else, also all files in the public folder should be readable by all and when copied to the local computer become owned by the local computer user.
How can I achieve this? Tnx!
when switching from OS9 to OSX our users seemed to be a little confused about the public folder, behaving differently as they were used to from just sharing any folder you liked on OS9.
So what I did was deleting the Dropbox and giving full read and write access to the public folder to anyone, which helped.
But there is a problem which I am not sure if it is connected to that. Quite often it happens, that users copy files to another users public folder and there it cannot be opened or if it can, it can't be deleted anymore until you manually change the ownership and the file permissions. Why does that happen?
Files put into the public folder of another user should be created with ownership to the computer owner and not someone else, also all files in the public folder should be readable by all and when copied to the local computer become owned by the local computer user.
How can I achieve this? Tnx!