diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index cf4493d..77b4e64 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -471,8 +471,18 @@ Endpoint order:
 - AFP Create Directory (`0x01`) and AFP 2.0 Create Directory (`0x0d`) are now
   routed through the existing NetWare directory-create helper for temporary
   smoke paths.  The Linux smoke suite creates both a legacy and AFP 2.0
-  directory under the tested parent, verifies the returned namespace-derived
-  Entry ID, and removes the directories through the local Unix path.
+  directory under the tested parent and verifies the returned namespace-derived
+  Entry ID.  Local cleanup is deliberately best-effort because the smoke suite
+  normally runs as an unprivileged Unix user while mars_nwe creates the DOS
+  namespace directory as the server-side identity; repeated runs therefore use
+  fresh short DOS-compatible leaf names instead of requiring local delete rights.
+- Runtime status: the create-directory smoke has been verified with
+  `failures=0`.  The run created `SYS:PUBLIC/afptst0` through legacy AFP
+  Create Directory (`0x01`) and `SYS:PUBLIC/afptst02` through AFP 2.0 Create
+  Directory (`0x0d`), with both probes returning and re-verifying Entry ID
+  `0x00000005`.  The same run also confirmed that regular-file AFP Entry IDs
+  stay on the nwatalk/fallback path (`0x067a8d0f` for `PMDFLTS.INI`) while
+  directory scan/basehandle IDs continue to use the NetWare namespace mapping.
 - Next implement AFP Create File (`0x02`) and AFP 2.0 Create File (`0x0e`) by
   routing through the existing NetWare create/open path and testing only
   explicit temporary smoke files with cleanup.
diff --git a/tests/linux/README.md b/tests/linux/README.md
index 8c17fce..0e3f0ab 100644
--- a/tests/linux/README.md
+++ b/tests/linux/README.md
@@ -214,9 +214,13 @@ Example:
 ./tests/linux/afp_create_directory_smoke --afp20 -S MARS -U SUPERVISOR -P secret SYS:PUBLIC/afpdirts2
 ```
 
-The full smoke suite creates temporary directories under the tested parent and
-removes them through the local Unix path after each positive probe.  Use
-`--create-dir-name NAME` to override the default temporary leaf name.
+The full smoke suite creates temporary directories under the tested parent using
+fresh short DOS-compatible leaf names by default.  Local removal is best-effort:
+AFP Delete is not implemented yet, and the script often runs as an unprivileged
+Unix user while the server created the directory under its own identity.  Use
+`--create-dir-name NAME` to override the default temporary leaf name, knowing
+that rerunning with the same explicit name may fail if a previous directory still
+exists.
 
 ## AFP Entry ID smoke test