[K12OSN] Create gnome shortcut icon to another file server

Peter Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Sun Oct 29 20:38:51 UTC 2006


Under Gnome, is there a way to put an icon on each user's desktop top 
that, when the user clicks on it, it opens a 'folder' that is a 
connection to another file server, via SMB or sshfs, or some other 
protocol?  The idea is that the kids can click on the icon to open a 
view of their home directory on the remote file server, and drag files 
in and out of there. Ideally, it would prompt for an ID & PW, but we 
could manage public keys over ssh if necessary.  What I can't figure out 
is what command the icon should call when the user clicks on it.  Trying 
to setup a generic link in gnome, using environment variables like $USER 
and $HOME doesn't work because Gnome doesn't seem to understand those 
and just treats them as literal strings.  I can call sshfs with 
environment variables, but that just mounts the remote directory.  I 
supposed I could create a script that calls sshfs, and once mounted, 
calls Nautilus's file manager pointed at the mountpoint; what's the 
syntax for that?  Or is there a better way?

Petre




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