[X4U] Tiger and aliases etc...

[Scott]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:


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> On 3/8/05 2:47 PM, "Eddie Hargreaves" <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>
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>> Hold down the Command and Option keys while dragging the Network  
>> icon.
>>
>>
>
> This didn't work for me. It had no effect.
>
>
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>> On 8/3/05 11:38 AM, Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
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>>> I was not able to drag the Network icon to the desktop. It said I  
>>> had
>>> insufficient privileges even though I was logged in as the admin.  
>>> In Panther
>>> I
>>> am able to this no problem. I like to have to there so I don't  
>>> have to open a
>>> finder window to access other machines on the network. It's not a  
>>> big deal
>>> but
>>> I was surprised that I could no longer do this.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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> This machine isn't mine. I'm setting it up for someone else who is  
> away. I
> tried creating a new user with admin privileges that didn't work. I  
> tried
> repairing the permissions, no effect. (I hadn't repaired  
> permissions prior
> to this) This machine is brand new and never been used with very few
> documents on it so far. I just double checked to make sure I did  
> the same
> thing on the Panther machine as the Tiger machine and it did it in  
> Panther
> but not Tiger still.
>
> At this point I'm just going to let it go as it doesn't directly  
> affect me
> but when I do upgrade to Tiger at least I'll know. I didn't try  
> dragging the
> icon to the Dock however. This machine is in another office in the  
> building
> and I'm tired of running back and forth from it. Maybe tomorrow  
> I'll check
> it again.
>


I'm running 10.4.2, brand new install on a brand new machine. I  
cannot drag Network to the desktop, but I can drag it to the right/ 
bottom of the dock.

If you really need it on the desktop instead, this will do it in  
Terminal:

ln -s /Network ~/Desktop/Network