This means they do not have read, write, or execute access (cd /home/amelie 
will not work) to this directory, using the standard UNIX file system semantics 
(rwx for the user only but no permissions for groups and others).
In contrast to Windows, you have no drives (C:,D:, etc.) available on Linux 
(except when using Wine and its drive mapping features), since everything is just 
mounted into the file system. But you can easily add the old drive names in 
brackets when configuring desktop folder icons so the user recognizes his old 
environment. NFS, SMB, or even bind mounts (see Example 4 2) are very 
powerful mechanisms to build a file system hierarchy.
Example 4 2   Code
mount  o bind /usr/local/src /home/amelie/src
When a user understands this UNIX philosophy she will be very fast accessing 
files with a shell and TAB completion, but most Linux beginners will explore the 
file system using a file (and Web) browser like Konqueror or Nautilus.
Figure 4 4   Accessing remote directory in transparent way with Konqueror (fish://)
These are very sophisticated tools, and by using virtual file system mechanisms 
(GNOME VFS, KIO_slaves) you can access files on remote servers or even 
physical devices like USB sticks, bluetooth devices, digital cameras, etc. in a 
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