Use Apple's Server Admin Tools to Force Inherit Permissions We have our work drive (let's call it Drive2014) and we have our archive drive (Drive2013). Every file on Drive2013 is read-only and must remain that way. When I drag a file from Drive2013 to Drive2014, I need the file to inherit the permissions from it's new home on Drive2014.

I tried How do I use chmod on a Mac to make new files inherit parent directory permissions? but this is only applicable after the file has been copied.

Someone mentioned that what I want to do is feasible through Apple's Server Admin Tools. I'm running the latest version of OS X Mavericks Server all up to date.
Open Server.app and select your server from the services list.
Go to the Storage tab.
Browse to the folder location that you wish to inherit permissions from.
Click the gear at the bottom, and select Propagate Permissions…
Choose the permissions you wish to propagate and click OK.