On 15-Apr-06 mail@steve-ss.com wrote:

as root if I do:

ln -s /home/steve/Desktop/dogs /home/lynn/Desktop

Then user lynn fires up kde, the link doesn't appear as a folder but an empty file icon. Root can see the link fine however.

How can I make the link so that it works properly? SuSE 10.0 Thanks, Steve.

I think you'll find it's a matter of permissions. If (as user lynn) you do the simple console command ls /home/lynn/Desktop you will probably get "permission denied". Although root owns the symbolic link, despite the link itself having permissions rwxrwxrwx, when lynn tries to access the folder linked to, lynn will come against the fact that the true owner of it is steve. And this will remain true even if root does chown lynn.users /home/lynn/Desktop I'm not sure of the best solution here! It depends on why you want to give Lynn access to steve's Desktop. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Apr-06 Time: 20:31:37 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

At 03:16 PM 4/15/06, mail@steve-ss.com wrote:

as root if I do:

ln -s /home/steve/Desktop/dogs /home/lynn/Desktop

Probably you should have done it as lynn.