[Daniel R. Wilkins]

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

[David Candy]

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