By default, when you creat a new Mac volume on a Windows Server using the Services For Macintosh GUI interface, the new share gets created with Read-Only permissions for all Mac users. In order to allow Mac users to be able to modify the contents of the volume, you have to go back and manually change remove the “Read Only” checkbox from the settings on the share.
I just stumbled across the command line that can be used to create the Mac share and make it Read/Write from the get-go:
- macfile volume /add /name:volname /path:dirpath /readonly:false
where volname is the name you want the users to see when they access the volume and dirpath is the full path to the folder on the server that should be used as the root of the share.
Because I’m lazy and don’t like typing in full pathnames, I created the following batch file to create a new Macintosh volume share using teh current working directory as the root of the volume:
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