Server problems with Vectorworks files

[nonegiven]

This is strange, I wonder if anyone else has experience this;

After re-building a RAID on our Mac OS 10.4 Xserve, we cannot copy over Vectorworks or .dwg files.

If I save the drawing from the workstation to the server via the 'File > Save as' menu, it works fine.

If I try copying over pdfs or docs, I can do it.

But if I try drag and dropping a Vectorworks or dwg file into a existing or new folder, if it is a new or replacement drawing, the server disconnects with no error message given. This happens from all workstations.

Our client workstations are still working on OS 9.2. G4 eMac and towers.

Our server is a G5 Xserve. No real setting changes were made, it is a fairly open system. We just rebuilt a RAID and copied data back.

Thanks.

Edited August 3, 2007 by nonegiven

[Guest]

This sounds like an Apple issue. You may want to contact Apple directly.

[islandmon]

There are various levels of permissions involved which may or may not support

drag&drop. When you "save as" you are executing a chmod command from a User

with prior approved permission 755 to access the server directory selected and to write to it.

Drag&drop via a server client's Finder is not necessarily a specific User permitted behavior

and therefore the server defaults to 644 which will not allow the write command.

You can set the server preferences to send an error code via dialog

or simply view the Console error log for the transaction in question.

[gScott]

god, don't you just love how simple + intuitive the mac operating system is?!?

[Christiaan]

Personally I like how secure it is.

[wezelboy]

I spent many years as a UNIX geek and I still can't decode permission masks without looking at the man page. (chmod has a nicer letter based interface thankfully)

A permissions problem won't usually cause a server disconnect though.