[X4U] Read only Permissions, OS9 to OSX

[Peter Krug]

We are running a database that one user modifies, then about 10 other 
users use the modified files to do their work (these users never modify 
the files themselves, only the master file is ever modified).  The 
"modifying" user running OS9 puts the database files into a location on 
her computer which is a share.  The other users (OS X and OS9) grab 
these files and replace the old database files on their systems so they 
can use the updated information.  The OS9 users have no problem.  SOME 
of the OS X users have problems.  When they copy the files from the OS9 
shared folder, the files come over as read-only.  The Database wants to 
be able to write to these files, so it craps out and dies.  But on two 
OS X users computers, this does not happen, the files are read and 
write enabled once copied.  Only the other 8 have problems.

An interesting twist is that if the person who modifies the database 
physically pushes the files to these 8 users, the files come over as 
read-write enabled. The problem is that the 10 users are not always on 
the network, so attempts to push the files will fail more often than 
not.  Also, the "modifying" user is a whiner.

Yes, the 8 users can modify the files to make them read-only 
themselves, but they are whining about this.  Any ideas why 2 users get 
the files from the OS9 share as read-write but the rest only get them 
as read only?

I could be a hero to these users (and to the recipients of the 
aforementioned whining).
Oh, and yes, even though the 10 don't modify the files themselves, the 
stupid database running in Classic wants to be able to write to them.  
It's a FoxBase database from 1989.  Please stop laughing.

Thanks,

Peter

A little computer haiku:
I can't remember
the last time I restarted
I love OS X

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