Can't make directory link to Desktop

[Antony Gelberg <antony wayforth co uk>]

Hi,

Using Gnome 2.14 on Debian.  Let's take a user Gavin who is in the
Domain Users group.

gavin honey:~$ id
uid=1007(gavin) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=513(Domain Users)
gavin honey:~$ ls -ld /home/share
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-12-21 14:30 /home/share
gavin honey:~$ ls -ld /home/share/general/
drwxrwxr-x 5 root Domain Users 4096 2007-04-11 11:49 /home/share/general/

The problem is that using Nautilus, the user can't create a link to
/home/share/general on the Desktop.  Upon right-clicking on the
directory, Make Link... is greyed out.  Is this a bug?  The user has
read permissions on the directory (and its parent).

Antony