Hi there. I just installed SUSE 9.2 and I am haveing problems accessing my hard drive. When I click on the my computer icon and try to access it I get this....

There is no action associated with "Hard Disc (/dev/hdb2)".

You can configure GNOME to associate applications with file types. Do you want to associate an application with this file type now?

I read in another thread that you are supposed to link it to computer:///
How do I do this?

Thanks.

I am not very familiar with that 'My Computer' stuff (it's too microsoftish ). Try to do it the Linux-way. All drives may be automatically mounted through /etc/fstab (most probably the 'My Computer' window uses the same mechanism.

With 'cat /etc/mtab' you can check which filesystems are actually mounted. With 'fdisk -l' you can check which partitions are available for mounting. In /etc/fstab, create an entry for each of those partitions with
1. device (/dev/hdb2)
2. mountpoint (e.g. /myfiles)
3. filesystem (e.g. ext3/reiserfs/ntfs/fat32)
4. options (try 'defaults' first)
5. dump (set '0')
6. fsck (set '0' if you don't know more about it)

See 'man fstab' and 'man mount' for further details.

Sorry, with GNOME I cannot help you to get a clickable icon for your desktop
I am a KDE user.

Hello necbrownie,

The "My Computer" icon is more or less only a specific URL (drives :/) for the KDE Konqueror.
The entries you see for you drives are stored as files under /dev/shm/Desktop/ and
have names like hdb2.desktop.

I do not know if the Gnome Nautilus can parse those .desktop files and if it's possible
at all to set-up Nautilus to parse them.

However, if you have installed also KDE additionaly to GNOME then you may use
konqueror (yes it runs also under GNOME).

Right Click on the GNOME Desktop and select "Create Launcher" from the fly-out menu.
Enter as Name "My Computer" and as Command
/opt/kde3/bin/konqueror drives:/

Thanks Vlad,

That works. Now I have two icons on my desktop that link to my drives. Is there anyway to get rid of the original My Computer Icon? The one that links to the drive links that don't work? Thanks.

Hello necbrownie,

glad to see it works. To get rid of the old icon, clck on it with the right mouse button and
and choose from the fly out menu the option that sends an object to the trash-bin.

Vlad,

I tried that but the fly-out menu doesn't have that option available (it is there but the text isn't black, it's cloudy so I can't click on it). It there any other way to get rid of it?

So the Move to trash Option is not available ?
OK, then go to your home directory and there in the Desktop subdirectory,
cd ~/Desktop
There you will find a fille with a name like:
myComputer.desktop
Delete this file
rm -f myComputer.desktop
and the My Computer Icon should disappear.

Thanks for the help Vlad. I tried it using the method you described and it didn't work. The computer.desktop icon wasn't even listed when I typed in ls in the Desktop directory???? Anyway, I started gconf-editor, went to apps/nautilis/Desktop and checked of the appropriate icon and it worked all right.