Re: Can't make directory link to Desktop
- From: Shaun McCance <shaunm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:45:51 -0500
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 22:33 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
Hi,
Using Gnome 2.14 on Debian. Let's take a user Gavin who is in the
Domain Users group.
gavin@honey:~$ id
uid=1007(gavin) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=513(Domain Users)
gavin@honey:~$ ls -ld /home/share
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-12-21 14:30 /home/share
gavin@honey:~$ ls -ld /home/share/general/
drwxrwxr-x 5 root Domain Users 4096 2007-04-11 11:49 /home/share/general/
The problem is that using Nautilus, the user can't create a link to
/home/share/general on the Desktop. Upon right-clicking on the
directory, Make Link... is greyed out. Is this a bug? The user has
read permissions on the directory (and its parent).
The 'Make Link' menu item creates a symlink in the same
directory as the original file or directory. I don't
quite understand why anybody finds that useful, though
I suppose you can then move the symlink elsewhere.
Since the user doesn't have permission to write to the
directory /home/share/, he can't use 'Make Link' on
files or directories in /home/share/, since it would
create the symlink in that directory.
Instead of using 'Make Link', try making the link with
drag and drop. If you hold down Ctrl+Shift, Nautilus
will symlink instead of move the file. Alternatively,
if you hold down Alt, you'll get a menu of possible
drag actions when you drop.
--
Shaun
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