If there is a structure: /home/download User "Internet" has no rights creating anything below /home, but has all rights within the download directory. Now, I (logged on as "Internet" user) like to see a Link to my download directory at my Desktop. I start Nautilus, navigate to /home, right click the download folder. Click the "Make Link" option and....nothing happens. What I would like to see is a popup, asking me where to store the Link. Success Mathijs.
Are you sure it didn't create a link called "link to download" in /home?
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Thanks for the bug report. I tried reproducing this on my machine (Fedora release 8, with package "nautilus-2.20.0-6.fc8"), but it appears that this is not a bug, but a feature. It there exists a directory "/home/download" and user/group "root:root" is the owner of the "/home" directory : [root@pavilion /]# ll -d /home/ drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2007-11-18 18:49 /home/ then my user-account has no rights to write in the "/home" directory directly. When I (from the GNOME desktop) right-click on "/home/download" (see attached file "screenshot-1.png") the option 'Make Link' stays greyed-out, because Nautilus has no rights (... out of the box) to make a link of the directory "/home/download" inside the "/home" directory. But when I change the rights of the "/home" directory to my user-account then it _is_ possible to select the option 'Make Link'. To let Nautilus do what you want it to do in this case, you can use the middle mouse-button (... or the scroll-wheel) and drag the "Download" folder to your GNOME desktop and select 'Link Here' to create a link inside "/home/Internet/Desktop" (see attached file "screenshot-2.png").
Created attachment 263051 [details] Screenshot of 'right mouse-button on Download folder'
Created attachment 263061 [details] Screenshot of 'dragging Download folder with middle mouse-button'