rek@sei.cmu.edu (Bob Kubiak) (12/12/89)
As the administrator of some AppleShare servers (of various machine types, i.e. Macintoshes, VMS and UNIX systems), I find it necessary to sometimes move a hierarchy of folders from one volume to another. Unfortunately, when the folder hierarchies are copied from volume to volume, the folder privileges don't get replicated as well, the new folders having the default privileges for new folders (i.e., whatever is set with FolderShare, or the standard default if FolderShare is not used). Because the folder hierarchies belong to other groups of users and sometimes have rather convoluted sets of owners and privileges, it's not as simple as changing the top-level folder and using the Change All Enclosed Folders checkbox - it can get rather labor intensive trying to manually reproduce all the owner/group and privilege settings. Are there any tools available which can (from the Mac side) also copy along the folder privilege info when the folder is copied to a different volume (of the same server - the only case where it should be certain to make sense)? If not, am I missing some other way of doing this? On some servers where VMS or UNIX is the back-end, backups/restores or copying from the back-end machine have a tendency not to work (at least with the server software we're using now). Thanks! _Bob Kubiak Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University rek@sei.cmu.edu