Re: [K12OSN] Launcher to point to SMB mounted folder

["Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson gwi net>]

Christopher K. Johnson wrote:

> David Trask wrote:
>
> > k12osn redhat com writes:
> >  
> >
> > > nautilus smb://my-pdc/profiles/${USER}
> > > should do the trick.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Nope....didn't seem to work...got a  message saying it couldn't find 
> > it. If I type in my username in place of ${USER} it works.
> >
> > anything else for me to try?
> >  
> Well it definitely works from the command-line.  I have tested the 
> following method to work from a launcher.  There may be a more elegant 
> solution, but I'll have to do some digging.  In any case this will 
> work for now:
>
> Create a file in /bin containing just the line
>
> nautilus smb://my-pdc/profiles/${USER}
>
> and make it world executable.
> Create the launcher setting the Command field to just the name of the 
> file you created.
This also works:
Create a launcher setting the Command field to:
bash -c "nautilus smb://freedom/shared/${USER}"

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