We are having problems with sticky-bits mysteriously disappearing from some i-bay folders.
We are using Indesign on a couple of Macs (OS-X), with Incopy used to write 'assignments' to shared i-bays. An assignment consists of a folder and some files, which another user accesses using 'Incopy' on their PC. All Macs have Appletalk turned off, so we are using Samba for everything.
We are finding that occasionally, a folder created by a Mac sometimes lacks the 'sticky bit' on the group permissions. This causes problems with ownership on all the files that get placed within it (i.e. the group of all files created within the folder belong to the file owner, and not the i-bay, so no other i-bay users can write to those files, or even to the folder).
First question: is it even possible for the sticky bit of a folder to be reset through a Samba connection?
If so, then how can we avoid it? If not, then are we encountering a known Samba bug?
Anyone seen anything like this before?
Just so this is a little clearer, we have an i-bay folder like this:
.../ibayname/files: drwxrwsr-x ibayname ibayname
Normally if a folder is created in that ibay, the permissions would be:
.../ibayname/files/mydir: drwxrwsr-x myuser ibayname
Then any files created within that folder would get a group of 'ibayname'.
When it goes wrong, the folder created looks like this:
.../ibayname/files/mydir: drwxrw-r-x myuser myuser
That means only the user that created the folder can write inside the folder. This does not consistently happen, just occasionally, and we are not sure what is significant about those occasions.
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