Get .DS_Store to stick around on network drives

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Hello all I have a somewhat silly question. It’s not mission critical, but it’s just a little something I’m working on.

I have a Slackware 12 box with 4 500GB drives in it in software RAID 5 as a back up/media storage for my PowerMac G5 and my MacBook Pro. I’m using netatalk version 2.0.3 to share out the volume. I want to create a custom background/icon layout for the folder. However I’ve noticed when I set it up and unmount the volume (setup in view options) the next time I mount it the image goes away. As I understand it OS X keeps folder customizations in the .DS_Store file, and I’ve noticed that that file doesn’t get modified on the share. The raid on the Linux box is chmodded to 777, so it should be writable. I’ve also tried the same thing over samba with the same results.

I’m sure this is well below the caliber of questions that get asked around here. 😛

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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