What you really want are Nautilus-specific aliases. This is in the GNOME bugzilla.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: nautilus => gnome-vfs2 Severity: Normal => Wishlist Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #44554 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44554 ** Also affects: gnome-vfs (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44554 Severity: Unknown Priority: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Cannot create link on a Samba-drive using Nautilus https://launchpad.net/bugs/38733 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs