solved! (was Re: ACL woes on 10.4 server)

Ok -- I'm logged in to the machine as user "admin" (an administrator
user), and am authenticated in Workgroup Manager as that same user
(admin).

The file share folders I created with the folder-plus icon in WG
manager were owner root.

The file share folders I created in the terminal, I created as user
admin, and so had owner admin.

When, from the terminal, I did "sudo chown admin" to those
misbehaving folders, and then hit the "Refresh" button in WG manager,
the propagate permissions menu choice was available.

So, apparently, those folders created while in WG manager default as
belonging to root.

Hm, yes -- when I create a new folder, it shows in the Access tab as
being owner root and group admin. I hadn't bothered changing the
owner to anything different from root, but sure did change the groups
on all of them to some other group. Apparently this disallowed admin
(the user who was running WG manager) to have the authority to
Propagate permissions.

Whew!

-Greg

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