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Re: Remove mounted drive links from desktop?



On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:15:02PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> Is it possible to remove the mounted drive icons from my desktop in 
> Gnome?  Every time I connect to another server location, it creates an 
> icon on my desktop and then adds it to my Places->Network Places menu 
> item.  I like a clean desktop and would like to remove the icons, but 
> still have access to the locations, is this possible?

Sorry, I don't use Gnome ...

> Also, is it possible to setup mounts to say XP shared drives and Linux 
> shared locations so that they will show up inside apps like Gimp and 
> Open office?

Add this to /etc/fstab:

//server/share /home/me/mountpoint smbfs credentials=/home/me/mysecrets


and create /home/me/mysecrets:

username=myuser
password=mypasswd

HTH,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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