Ownership and permissions of Mac users don´t match windows

Hi
I have ownership and permissions problem on Windows. Hopefully anyone can help.
I created a user and gave the user permissions
1- NOT ALLOW TO SAVE FILES ON THE DESKTOP -->READ ONLY
The ownership and permissions only work on Mac OS machine. and DON´T WORK ON Microsoft Windows machines.
Anyone can tell me what I have to do and stop the problem.
Thank you
Regards
Tri

The Desktop folders on Mac and Windows machines are in different locations, so you will need to change permissions in both locations for this to work.
For Mac, the Desktop is ~/Desktop, for Windows it is located in the User Profile, under the Desktop folder.
--Tim

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