﻿id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
18345,Read-only flag of shared folders: not handled properly under Windows Host Linux Guest => Fixed in SVN,Gang Liang,,"It is a known issue for Windows that read-only bit for directory has special meanings: it does not really mean read-only. Please see below for the KB article on this subject: [https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/326549].

Basically, read-only for a directory under Windows is ignored by Windows, and only used by File Explorer as a flag such that ''desktop.ini'' file will be used for folder customization. For instance, user '''Documents''' directory is read-only by default, yet users have no problem to modify files in it. This applies to Windows 10 as well.

Currently, Virtualbox takes the face value of the read-only bit of shared folders under Windows Host, yet it is not the correct interpretation of read-only bit for Windows directories. A quick search will find many reports of VBox shared folder read-only issues. Many time, users would like to access Documents, Download under Linux Host. Yet, these special folders would have strange behaviors under the guest.

I believe OS X guest suffers from the same issue.",defect,closed,shared folders,VirtualBox 6.0.2,fixed,read-only,,Linux,Windows
