Last night I upgraded an Xsan 1.1 broadcast environment to Xsan 1.2. Everything went smoothly, and now the new system offers one great new advantage: If you reshared an Xsan 1.1 volume using AFP, Mac OS X Server and Xsan allowed you to set group permissions for single folders.
If you set read and write permissions for group “A”, users with a primary group “A” were allowed to read and write within this folder. If a user had a primary group “staff” and a secondary group “A” he was not allowed to access this folder, as Xsan/Mac OS X Server just considered the primary group membership.
Xsan 1.2 and Mac OS X Server 10.4.3 consider all your group memberships, which means, that now you can fine-grain your permissions settings like in a pure AFP/POSIX environment. Time to move Xsan into your enterprise environment!
