I blogged about this feature some half a year ago. Since then, Microsoft (or Canonical, or both) made some improvements.
One fundamental issue is still there though - and causing all sorts of trouble, from broken 'screen' to not working 'ping'.
The issue is too familiar to those who ever tried to support NFS and CIFS simultaneously in the same file system.
Long story short, Microsoft has never figured out the meaning of mode bits in POSIX inode, POSIX systems have not done a good enough job of figuring out Windows permissions model.
There were attempts to marry the two - from Samba to Likewise (RIP) to some proprietary implementations by Sun Microsystems, EMC, Nexenta and others.
It would be nice if Microsoft and Canonical finally set this straight, but the chances are slim.
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I blogged about this feature some half a year ago. Since then, Microsoft (or Canonical, or both) made some improvements. One fundamental issue is still there though - and causing all sorts of trouble, from broken 'screen' to not working 'ping'. The issue is too familiar to those who ever tried to support NFS and CIFS simultaneously in the same file system. Long story short, Microsoft has never figured out the meaning of mode bits in POSIX inode, POSIX systems have not done a good enough job of figuring out Windows permissions model. There were attempts to marry the two - from Samba to Likewise (RIP) to some proprietary implementations by Sun Microsystems, EMC, Nexenta and others. It would be nice if Microsoft and Canonical finally set this straight, but the chances are slim.