Hi,
My solution was to do the following:
A user will be working on a file on my drive in Word Office 2004 (so far it doesn't seem to happen with any other app). When they want to save the file and navigate to my shared directory (which is mounted as a server), Word will sometimes hang.
Note:
- this happens during the navigation in the save dialog, NOT during the save.
- it's a hang and not a crash (the Force Quit window doesn't show Word as failing to respond)
- the hang appears to be permanent - you can't wait it out
- this is an intermittent problem - it doesn't always happen
From all this I am lead to think the problem is a network issue - perhaps having to do with UID (since all these different people are connecting from the same user account simultaneously). But even when I created multiple accounts, the problem did not appear resolved. I also tried to force a unique UID on each user (in the 6000 range), but that didn't seem to help either...
HELP!
- I want to grant multiple users access to some files on my computer
- I don't want to place those directories in my ~/Public
- BUT I want these various users to have read/write permissions on certain files and only read permission on others
My solution was to do the following:
- Create a new non-admin user account called Team (I thought it would be more elegant to create 1 account instead of multiple accounts).
- Create a User Group called TeamGroup to which I added Team and my account. When any of the multiple users connects to my machine, they will do so as the user Team.
- I then did a chown on my files to belong to group TeamGroup.
- I then did chmod on my files so as to make certain files read/write for the group, and others read-only for the group
A user will be working on a file on my drive in Word Office 2004 (so far it doesn't seem to happen with any other app). When they want to save the file and navigate to my shared directory (which is mounted as a server), Word will sometimes hang.
Note:
- this happens during the navigation in the save dialog, NOT during the save.
- it's a hang and not a crash (the Force Quit window doesn't show Word as failing to respond)
- the hang appears to be permanent - you can't wait it out
- this is an intermittent problem - it doesn't always happen
From all this I am lead to think the problem is a network issue - perhaps having to do with UID (since all these different people are connecting from the same user account simultaneously). But even when I created multiple accounts, the problem did not appear resolved. I also tried to force a unique UID on each user (in the 6000 range), but that didn't seem to help either...
HELP!