I'll have to preface this relpy with: I've never really done much filesystem admining in Linux or Windows. I've tooled around enough to understand the concepts and that if I had to do something more serious I could.
I'll say this though. File system administration in NetWare beats these two OSs hands down. It's granular when you want it to be but still easy to understand. The concept of ACLs is there, but it's not near as difficult. NetWare has been doing file systems for 15 years. A quote in this thread says "in XP now there is an "effective permissions" dialog". NetWare had that in version 4.11 which I starting using in 1997. I'm pretty sure it was there in earlier version, but I can't say 100% for sure. I'm not saying this for flame wars, but just trying to give another perspective to this discussion. It can be granular, it can be easy. It can also be tied to specific users. I know every one can't copy Novell's infrastructure, but they could learn. Actually MS has been learning and a lot of AD is taken/copied from eDirectory.
