Windows Folder Customisations on Network Shares

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The folders must be read only or system for the Desktop.ini to be parsed. What customisations do you refer to.

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"Daniel R. Wilkins" <DanielRWilkins@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E40FC542-F5F1-4450-8B4C-A9610FBD9B16@microsoft.com...
>I have a Samba file server running on SuSE 9.1 that serves the user files and
> other items for Windows 2000/XP Pro clients and on these drives, the folder
> customisations specified in the desktop.ini file are not displayed by Windows
> explorer - this is often necessary for the descriptors and special icons used
> for some shared folders.
>
> I do not see why Windows does not display the customizations as surely the
> client system parses the desktop.ini file (as different My Pictures icons
> etc. appear on the W2K and WXP clients), not the server. Are there any
> special attributes that must be set on the file? - read-only, archive and
> system can be set on the server.
>
> As far as I am aware, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is able to read the files, yet
> none of the customisations are displayed.
>
> This problem isn't major but one of those small irritating things that
> causes real headaches when you try to fix it as nothing seems to work! Have
> asked the Linux community - few ideas about sorting out Samba server so its
> probably down to Windows.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> DRW