Lion Server, Windows clients, execute rights?

I am looking to support client machines running Windows on Parallels on Lion, with a Mac Mini server to store all files. Everything is dandy but for my Installs folder. To install software on Windows you have to have execute rights, and Unix (rightly ) doesn't exose this by default. So I am wondering what best practice is.
Do people apply an ACL to the Installs folder and sub folders? Do Posix rights on a file by file bases? Punt and run a VM with Windows 7 on the Server to act as a file share?
Thanks for any insight or suggestions.
Gordon

This has been madness. So many alchemist fixes around Google for what seems to be a common problem: edit the registry, alter security settings, configure OpenDirectory, kiss a frog. What happened to the idea of sharing a folder on the LAN and getting back to work?
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