Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 13:25, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 22:11, David Emory Watson wrote:
>     I was just thinking about my Grandmother:  I don't think she should ever
>     need to know about terminals.  Ever, ever, ever. (or hidden files for
>     that matter)
> 
> Yeah. But can she setup the filesharing and mount it on the old machine

She could, but IMHO, she shouldn't have to.

Anyway, if I recall correctly the smb support in gnome-vfs will allow
her to open a share without specifically asking to "mount" it.

> anyway? I mean, I moved my files from my old laptop to the new, I just
> dragged my whole homedir to a firewire harddisk, and mounted it on the
> new machine and dragged them to /home/ there. But it is not that simple.
> You still need to know a few things like getting the UID right (so you

Yep, thats a problem.

> have access to your own files on the new machine), mounting the disks
> etc.