Cannot create link on a Samba-drive using Nautilus

[markba]

When trying to create a link with Nautilus on a file located on a Samba-drive,
Nautilus shows: "Error "Operation not permitted" while creating a link to "/mnt/win02-...p/bugs.txt"." This seems logical because it is a Linux-link which will be created and not a Windows-shortcut.

On the other hand, I think that Nautilus should give me an option to create that link on the desktop (for example), because a 'normal' user does not have any knowledge about file-systems like Samba, nor should he have (my opinion).

From a useability viewpoint, I think my suggestion is a better option, because requiring a user to switch to terminal and executing "~/Desktop$ ln -s /mnt/win02-temp/bugs.txt" does not seem a viable option.

So, it's more a feature request than a bug, I'm not sure if this channel (Launchpad) is the right one.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

What you really want are Nautilus-specific aliases. This is in the GNOME bugzilla.

[acon (beque)]

What you really want is for samba shares mounted by nautilus to really be mounted and not just fake mounted, i.e. they should appear in the file system. Then normal symlinks to remote files would work, and programs that doesn't use Gnome-VFS could access the files.