Gary since updating to Lion, I noticed two new unfamiliar things at least. For one my NAS drive connected to an Airport Extreme has a “unknown” in the “Sharing and Permissions” and I can not seem to add or make changes. there are two user accounts, my wife and I. for some reason I can read and write to it, but my wife can not. Also noticed on my Main HD I have like this: “system”:read/write, “wheel”(?):read only, and “everyone”:read only. The one I do not understand is the “wheel” and I believe on my Snow Leopard, I had administrators listed in the “permissions”. Any thoughts as to what Lion is doing?
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Really hard to diagnose from here.
wheel is a group that contains the root user. Not sure how that affects this particular item, though.
By NAS do you mean some sort of third-party NAS solution, or just a plain hard drive connected to your TC via USB? If so, then you use AirPort Utility to set its permissions, I think. Perhaps you have permission and your wife's account doesn't?
With my boot HD in snow leopard it used to say Admin: read/write now on Lion it does not have Admin but just wheel: read only. The "system" still says read/write. Just odd in what I am used to.
Yes it's a vanilla HD connected to a AE. if I plug the HD directly to Mac I get the "usual" "me" read/write privileges but once I connect back to AE it shows that "unknown". I have file sharing for NAS on AE set to access by AE password. The thing is it seems only one person at a time can be connected. If I am connected to it, when I log into wife account she had no privileges even though the password is in her keychain. What I have to do is disconnect NAS and than reconnect in whatever User Account inam in currently but again the other has no privileges, until of course I disconnect and reconnect with the other user. Very weird. I upgraded to lion using Migration. Thinking of just manually migrating to get things straight.
And when I say "disconnect NAS" I did nor mean physically. I mean unmount it
Strange. I don't have a setup like yours, so I'm afraid I can't be of much help.
Ok thanks. But just real quick when you do an Command-I for your Boot Drive on Lion, do you have the usual "me" read/write, "Admin" read/write?
I have:
system: Read & Write
wheel: Read only
everyone: Read only
And that is on a brand new MacBook Air with Lion pre-installed.
Lion must change the Boot Drive permissions. On Snow Leopard I had
System read/write
Admin read/write
Everyone read only
Like I said if the Boot HD is not broke no need to fix. It's just what I am not use to and trying to understand Lion's permissions on Boot Drive. Snow Leopard's made sense to me, this does not.
Sigh of relief to know you have the same set of permissions on your Lion Boot Drive though:).
Apparently Apple has changed the AFP in Lion so I am reading.