Shared folders clearing file executable bit on save - XPSP3 guest on build 5608

Hi,

I am currently reevaluating Parallels desktop, and am finding it extremely compelling apart from one highly irritating issue on which I am hoping to get some advice.

I am using shared folders in a Windows XP SP3 guest to allow editing of some perl programs in a windows text editor sitting in my mac user home directory. I can open, edit and save these files correctly - but it seems that when parallels writes back the files to the mac filesystem it is clearing the executable bit on the file. To be more precise, it looks like it always sets the file mode as 644 for the files I have so far edited. I should say I have now tried this in a couple of text editors with the same results.

I don't see any setting within the shared folder options to disable this, so I'm thinking it's a bug. I am guessing the workaround would be to enable SMB file sharing through samba on OS X and mount that network drive, but that does feel like more of a hacky workaround than anything else.

Has anybody else experienced this, or know of any option that I need to set?

Thanks in advance, Alex J Burke.

 

Probably allowing SMB shares on Mac OS side and connecting directly to Mac (or mounting Mac shares as disks in Windows), without using Shared Folders, will allow you to achieve your goals