![]() Windows also has a habit of automatically converting environment vars to absolute links, defeating any attempt at working around this. This creates a lot of maintenance should the target root path change. Shortcuts in windows are absolute, not relative ergo not portable.Short-cut links are evaluated and cached by default in Windows whenyou open the parent folder, causing "massive" delays in explorer if a folder contains shortcuts to slow or sleeping network shares.It is of course always possible to create indirect links to access the SMB folders, and give those custom icons instead, but that causes multiple other problems: ![]() The bums at Microsoft are just refusing to deal with it, all the way back to Windows NT. The lack of desktop.ini processing on SMB breaks many other things, not just folder icons: Symbolic links and personalized name spaces also don't function. There is supposed to be a registry setting that forces Desktop.ini processing by using the "System" (super-hidden) flag instead of "Read Only" but I have never gotten it to work as expected. In Windows, Read only (with folders only) means process Desktop.ini !!!.Right-click -> Properties -> Customize -> Change icon is not available on SMB shares.ĭesktop.ini is NOT processed by windows for SMB shares, because Linux interprets the (folder's) "Read Only" bit differently, and reports it back to Windows incorrectly: It has been a long time since I have seen so much bull
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