My goal is to mount a shared folder from a Synology to a Mac running 10.9.1, only I want the mount point to be accessible to all users in group staff. The share is made accessible by the synology through AFP and SMB, and I could activate NFS sharing as well. The share holds photos that are accessed by Picasa. Picasa's DB is stored in a local folder that is accessible to the staff group. I need to share Picasa's DB because otherwise my users won't be able to share the face recognition DB that goes with it. I'm not storing the DB on the NAS though since it is advised not to.
I tried using the automount method and plain old /etc/fstab syntax, to no avail. I can mount the share all right using both methods, but only the user doing the mount can actually access it. I used the noowners switch for afp and the -d and -f switch for smb/cifs. They seem to work when checking rights with ls -l, but other users still get a permission denied message when trying to access it. It makes me wonder about the usefulness of said switches, but whatever.
So my question is: is it possible to mount a network share and have it be accessible to more than one user on the computer ? The complexity of doing this on OSX is kind of driving me crazy. Thanks for your help.
