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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