Hello all! Having some really weird issues with sharing folders from my Catalina-based Mac mini server!I have 4 accounts - one administrator, three sharing only accounts, and guest access is enabled, so that users that join the network can see their own files as well as upload files to a shared folder.
Admin - Admin
Thomas - Sharing
Lisa - Sharing
David - Sharing
and Guest
I want each user to have access ONLY to their shares from their own Macs, as well as have read only access to the Media drive, and guests only have read access as well, while Admin retains read/write access to everything. HOWEVER - the admin permissions seem to override everything!
As you can see from these screen shots, Lisa should only have access to her own Network HD folder, and only have read/write access to it.
However, logging into Lisa on the Mac shows that not only can she see and read the shares that aren't hers and set to no access, but she can also write to any of the ones the Admin account has read/write access to!
Basically the issue seems to be, everyone has the same rights and permissions as the Admin account, as long as the Admin account has any rights to that folder, including guests.
If I remove the Admin permission altogether, then sure enough, Lisa can only see the shares she's attached to and the permissions then work correctly. A side effect of this is also that if I remove Admin from a share, it also removes any guest access to it as well, despite it still showing as "read only" for Everyone.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or what's going on? I have been racking my brain. I feel like what I'm trying to do should be straight forward - admin should have access to everything, each user should only be able to see what they permitted to see, and guests should only have read access to what they're supposed to see. I don't think everyone should have read/write access and see every share just because the Admin does!
Is there a fix for this?
Admin - Admin
Thomas - Sharing
Lisa - Sharing
David - Sharing
and Guest
I want each user to have access ONLY to their shares from their own Macs, as well as have read only access to the Media drive, and guests only have read access as well, while Admin retains read/write access to everything. HOWEVER - the admin permissions seem to override everything!
As you can see from these screen shots, Lisa should only have access to her own Network HD folder, and only have read/write access to it.
However, logging into Lisa on the Mac shows that not only can she see and read the shares that aren't hers and set to no access, but she can also write to any of the ones the Admin account has read/write access to!
Basically the issue seems to be, everyone has the same rights and permissions as the Admin account, as long as the Admin account has any rights to that folder, including guests.
If I remove the Admin permission altogether, then sure enough, Lisa can only see the shares she's attached to and the permissions then work correctly. A side effect of this is also that if I remove Admin from a share, it also removes any guest access to it as well, despite it still showing as "read only" for Everyone.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or what's going on? I have been racking my brain. I feel like what I'm trying to do should be straight forward - admin should have access to everything, each user should only be able to see what they permitted to see, and guests should only have read access to what they're supposed to see. I don't think everyone should have read/write access and see every share just because the Admin does!
Is there a fix for this?
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