David:

Perhaps you should look at how samba handles this.  There is an option 
to use the --x--x--x bits to store (I believe) RHS attributes.  This 
would work on the personal drive quite well - and it would make you 
consistent with samba.

Just a thought -

--Yan



David Peet wrote:

> Your autoexec.bat file should have this line in it:
>       @attrib +s c:\windows\fonts
> This sets the system attribute that makes the fonts directory 
> work the way it is supposed to.  This line is put in there
> when you install Windows in Win4Lin. Perhaps it got deleted
> somehow.
> 
> You can set these attributes, but they only are effective
> durring the session.  When you exit your session only the
> attributes that have an equivalent in the Linux filesystem
> are saved.
> 
> Larry Marshall wrote:
> 
>>> Interesting. Too bad you can't change the file/folder attributes under
>>> win4lin.
>> 
>> Yeah...any idea how they're preventing the change of the system
>> attribute?
>> Until this came up I just assumed that my Windows install was not
>> being modified. Being naive worked so well until now :-)
>> 
>>> Like in unix windows needs to be configured with an editor too :)
>> 
>> <grin>...I'll take editing text files over editing the volatile
>> Windows registry any day.
>> 
>> Cheers --- Larry
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