Child of Local Player does not have local authority?

I'm new to UNet (as I imagine we all are...) and I may just be confused here...

With that said, I have the server spawning a player game object into the scene when a client connects. This prefab being spawned also has a child object (a weapon) with a component that allows the weapon to pass damage [Command]s to the server. However, this child weapon object is stating that it does not have local authority and therefore cannot send the [Command]... For instance, if I write print( isLocalPlayer ); or print( isClient ) on the Weapon.cs component, they both return false.

Is this normal behaviour? I would assume child objects of the local player that are spawned by the server would also be considered part of the client's authority... Should I be reporting this as a bug or is it only the root of the prefab being spawned by the server (and it's associated components) that have local authority?

If this is a(nother) bug, I'm about to throw the towel in on UNet until Unity gets around to fixing it in the coming months.

 

• A NetworkIdentity must be on the root game object of a spawnable prefab
• NetworkBehaviour scripts must be on the same game object as the NetworkIdentity, not on child game objects"

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UNetSpawning.html

 

I had a feeling it was somewhere buried in the new API manual. Just started playing with UNet yesterday after work...

Thanks!

EDIT: This link is helping a lot, was just using the Script Reference before... thanks again!