Hi, all. I have dual-boot on my office laptop (NT and SuSE 8), which, in addition to ReiserFS and NTFS partitions also has a small DOS partition for safe writing from Linux (I've been told that I can do damage if I try to write directly to NTFS from Linux). Anyway, SuSE sensed my partition scheme and gave me a nice little icon in my KDE desktop, that mounts the DOS partition and automatically launches Konqueror, to view it. Well, I have an smb connection to several network partitions (which I currently mount by hand, from a console command line). It occurs to me that a similar icon for mounting each smb drive -- and launching the browser -- would be just peachy. So, I copied the script behind the original icon, and began editing it to see what makes it work. (I thought I could just tweak it a bit so it would work with smb...) Here's the original script: [Desktop Entry] Comment=Mount and browse a Windows filesystem Comment[cs]=Pøipojení a prohlí¾ení systému souborù Comment[de]=Ein Windows Dateisystem mounten und öffnen Dev=/dev/hda9 FSType=Default Icon=windows_harddrive_mount MountPoint=/windows/E Name=Windows_E Name[en_US]=Windows_E ReadOnly=0 Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=windows_harddrive_unmount So, right away, I'm getting lost. What would replace "Dev="? I looked in /dev, and I don't see a /smb device, nor anything else that I recognize as appropriate. Since smb connections are temporary, is there another directory where the devices would live? Could I just leave that out? Is it necessary to declare anything there? Then, there's "FSType=Default". What should go there? The icon can stay. I like it. The "MountPoint=" will be one of my smb mountpoints, so that's ok, too. The "Name=" and Name[en_US]=" will obviously change, and I'm ok there, too. "ReadOnly=0" will be unchanged. Now, how about "Type=FSDevice"?? what should that be for an smb device, and again is it even a necessary setting? AND THE BIG QUESTION... should I be trying to do it this way at all? The two reasons that I wanted to re-use the existing script are: 1) it looked like a working example from which I could learn something, but have a chance of getting it right... 2) there's nothing actually IN the script that actually launches the browser, yet the browser gets launched, therefore, I assume that there's something that KDE recognizes from the script, or from its name, or from it's icon, or... that causes Konqueror to launch automatically once the script has mounted the alien partition. If there's an existing FAQ or HowTo, just point me. If not, then if somebody can explain what would work AND what my misconceptions are, you'll probably help some other people who were too /s/m/a/r/t/ shy to ask the same questions. Thanks very much. /kevin PS: Yes, I could just automate the smb connections at startup, but they often change, or are temporarily unavailable, and I'd be getting error messages and slow startup and... like that. Besides, I want to understand how that script does what it does, and what equivalent declarations and settings would be needed for the smb version of it.