The tech guy at my school uses a Windows Server 2003 for the school network. About half of the 20 teachers on the network use Macs. In a public shared folder on the network, when a Mac user makes a new folder, permissions to the group are not propogated, so others in the group cannot open the folder. (Permissions to the new folder are set just to the user's permissions and not that of the group. Whereas when using a Windows PC, the permissions of the new folder is set to that of the whole group.) It's a hassle for Mac users. He says this is a limitation of the Mac. He says there's no way around this. I can't believe then tens of thousands of other schools that run a Windows Server network have this problem. Macs account for a large percentage of computers on these networks. Are there any solutions to this problem of propogating permissions on this kind of network when using a Mac?

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Try the hint labeled "10.4: Set umask independently for Finder.app" [as I can't get the html link reference working].

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