I did a search and didn’t find an answer to my question. Sorry in advance if it’s here and I just missed it.
I’m wondering if someone has already run into this and come up with a solution before I try to reinvent the wheel.
I have a few labs that are both Mac and PC areas. They want to share files locally between their workstations as they move from one area of the lab to the next. The files need to be on a shared folder on an OSX (10.3) machine, and I want to have it set up so that users have to login in order to access any files on the machine.
What I need is some Folder Action or attached Apple Script that will change the default permissions on files, folders and enclosed items in those folders when they’re put into this shared folder. As is, items created with an administrator account can’t be changed by the lab account, and vice versa. Permissions can be manually changed, but that’s not much of a solution since you’d have to apply the change every time a file was added.
Any ideas? I played around with the folder actions options, but couldn’t get it to record a script that actually did this, although I’m new to that game, and might just be missing the obvious.
Thanks in advance. I’ve been all over the net and no one seems to have a nicely packaged solution to this that I can find yet. Some were close, but they didn’t handle the files contained withing folders added to the shared folder, which is important.