desktop shortcut to files

[NoOp]

On 09/28/2008 07:13 AM, Linda wrote:
> on LTS 6.06 my network files had shortcuts form the desktop. I don't 
> know if I created them or not. With 8.04 the only one that appears on 
> the desktop is a shared drive that is a external hard drive the other 
> NFS files do not have shortcuts and after a lot of searching I still 
> can't figure out how to recreate the desktop short cut. Just wondering 
> if anyone knows how to do it. It is nice because it alerted the user if 
> they needed to remount the nfs shares.
>                             Thanks
>                              Linda
> 

I know that for ntfs (I've not tried nfs for quite some time so don't
know if it is similar) the drives/partitions will automatically show up
if I automount them at startup via fstab. If not they will show up as
soon as I manually mount them (via Nautilus or cli) but obviously
disappear when unmounted.

You might have a look here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils
particularly the opposite where nfs shares are appearing when they
shouldn't:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/230034
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/214388