How are file permissions handled ?
The idea is to let users control the file permissions as they would do on Linux. But this is an inherently hard problem to solve as there is no correspondence between the Windows users (using Win2fs to access ext2 file-systems) and the users on the Linux operating system who created the file-system and the files inside it. To keep things simple, Win2fs assumes an admin user will be using it to access the ext2 file-systems from within Windows and hence lets him/her access to all the files regardless of file permissions. Users are also allowed to change the file permissions so that when they get back to Linux, they’ll be able to see their changes. You can use the ‘Win2fs’ property page for the specific files/dirs in question to accomplish this. Win2fs doesn’t hide files/dirs starting with a ‘.’ (dot) Yes, this is a known issue and we are working to resolve it.
