HI, I assumed a yes answer to above. I moved the example files to c:\nwchem-6.8 and ran:
nwchem /mnt/c/nwchem-6.8/h2o_core.nw
Run aborted with error 911, said 'could not open a file in permanent directory:' and
'could not open a file in scratch directory:"
then MPI died
note that my bash shell prompt is "$"