Re: Lion upgrade causing Windows folder permission problems

Axel Luttgens <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Mar 2012 23:43:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
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Le 2 mars 2012 à 20:07, Chris Murphy a écrit :

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> On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
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>> Am 01.03.2012 um 01:25 schrieb Chris Murphy:
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>>> And while I'm no fan of Microsoft, this seems like it constitutes a major exploit. Like a design level flaw that isn't easy to fix server side or they probably would have done it by now.
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>> Before doing such claims you should perhaps ask how the server is configured, first. Every server can be set up in a wide open way, allowing everything for everybody.
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> It is not a claim. It is called a supposition, and my word selection "seems like" does establish such.
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> And this has been a supposition of mine throughout, if you've kept track of the whole thread. But Susan has since said she called Apple support, described the problem, and they appear to be asserting this as a known problem.
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> And also the previous behavior indicates the server was setup expressly in a way contrary to how you describe, and past versions of OS X honored this configuration. But now by merely changing clients, this information is being exposed.

Well, having read the whole thread, I noticed Susan has spoken about a "general Windows server volume" and a "Windows volume", but never specified whether the share is provided by a Mac OS X server or a Windows server.

Perhaps would it be nice to have some additional info before going further?

Axel