Go with what spyrul is saying and just use ln -s once your in the command prompt. Also I'm new too and just learning Unix. If you are making a shortcut in certain files you might have to log onto root. To do that you type root as your user name when you log in and then type the root password or you can type "su" and hit enter once your logged in on your username and then type the password. As long as it says [root@localhost] then you did it the right way.