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 _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
