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Bug 635864 - Error creating link
Error creating link
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 148330
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-26 17:50 UTC by Emiliano Gonzalez
Modified: 2012-12-05 09:47 UTC
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Description Emiliano Gonzalez 2010-11-26 17:50:10 UTC 
When you want to make a link of a file in your desktop you can use ctrl+shift and drag and drop the file in desktop.

The propierties of the icon of link have de route to the file.

If you try to do the same BUT with a file mounted from SMB folder with  gvfs-mount "smb://xxxx" the link is created "broken" and the route to this file is wrong

If you do a ln -s with the same smb file remote to the desktop works fine.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2010-11-27 14:24:14 UTC 
Which version is this about, and which exact distribution?
Comment 2 Emiliano Gonzalez 2010-11-27 18:11:38 UTC 
Fedora 13, Nautilus 2.30.1
Comment 3 Ritesh Khadgaray ( irc:ritz) 2012-11-26 13:39:58 UTC 
This behaviour can be seen when using sftp backend. Personally, I believe natuilus should copy files over when dealing with symlink and remote fs.



* Copying symlinks to sftp copies the symlink, and not the file itself. 
* Copying symlinks from sftp is broken. This should make a copy of the file.
Comment 4 Ritesh Khadgaray ( irc:ritz) 2012-11-28 08:25:07 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but the maintainers need more information to fix the bug. Could you please answer the questions in the other report in order to help the developers?


Would you please confirm, if this is seen on the latest build.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 557393 ***
Comment 5 Ritesh Khadgaray ( irc:ritz) 2012-12-05 09:47:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148330 ***