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Launcher for NTFS windows folder

Asked by guyminuslife

Total Linux n00b. Forgive me if this has been asked before. I looked around on the forums and couldn't find anything, so...

I want to make a launcher that directly accesses my Windows "My Documents" folder from my main menu panel. Ironically, this is mostly so I have quick access to my Linux guide e-books. I followed some instructions I found on a website somewhere for command-line mounting of a Windows drive. So from the terminal I did:

#mkdir /mnt/win
#mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/win

Then, I could type
$sudo nautilus /mnt/win/Documents\ and\ Settings/<myname>/My\ Documents

And the terminal would prompt me to type in a password before opening the folder. When I ran the command from the launcher, it told me I didn't have the permissions. So I read something somewhere else about setting file permissions in Windows folders; I set everything I could in the folder from "None" to "Read Only," and then the terminal opened the folder without prompting me to enter my password. So it works like a charm in the terminal. However, when I run the command from the launcher, it doesn't complain at me, but it doesn't open the folder, either.

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guyminuslife (guyminuslife) said : 		#1

Okay, sorry, minor edit, newbie error. The system started asking me for my password again after I closed the terminal, did some stuff, and then opened it again. So basically, I'm at square one---I can do this from the command line, providing my password, but I can't do it from the launcher.

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guyminuslife (guyminuslife) said : 		#2

Wow. Maybe I was too quick to post...on the launcher "Properties" I changed the settings from "Application" to "Application in Terminal." Now it opens the terminal, then the folder I want. It doesn't close the terminal automatically, though...but it's fine for now, maybe I'll learn how to write scripts or something that does it.