Comment 14 for bug 365242

Kais: as an a-side: having your $HOME directory on a partition that doesn't handle unix permission, meta data, extended attributes or special files is a /really bad/ idea. What you're probably better doing is having your /home partition be on a standard Unix filesystem (ext*, xfs, ...) and then having a separate vfat/ntfs partition where you store you shared files. For convenience you can then doing something like:

  ln -s /mnt/somewhere ~/Desktop/shared-with-ms-window

and it'll be there on your Desktop.