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by electroly 1248 days ago
A related odd quirk I ran into once: if you use an Amazon S3 Storage Gateway as an SMB share, the Execute File permission suddenly matters. I don't fully understand why, but Windows won't run an .EXE file off the share without setting that security bit. It caused us quite a bit of pain. Normally it doesn't matter at all.
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Different subsystems, layers and libraries in Windows do have different interpretations of what characters to allow in a filename, what permission bits to obey, how to behave on different filesystems, etc. It's a huge mess. You can e.g. create invisible, undeleteable files by using characters the explorer doesn't like.
What's funny is when the Mac guy names a file on a network share that nobody else in the office can access or rename.