Ubuntu
nautilus-share package

Usershare should be set up (but not enabled by default)

Bug #103563 reported by Karl Hegbloom
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: samba

Nautilus has a plugin that lets you turn on Samba 'usershare', but that is not configured by default. When you go to share a directory for the first time, it says that it's not enabled. The package should contain (IMO):

/var/lib/samba/usershares owned by root:users, chmod ug=rwx,o=t
... and every newly created desktop user should be in group users... perhaps a special group should be created for it, your call.

That is the default setting for "usershare path". I think that "usershare deny list" should probably contain at least "/etc /dev /proc /sys" by default. (It is empty now.) "usershare allow list" perhaps should default to "/home".

Perhaps a "usershare template share" should also be set up by default, as described in the SWAT help screens.

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Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom) wrote :

Also "usershare allow guest", "usershare max shares" and "usershare owner only" should be configured. IMO, the defaults should be, when usershares are enabled, true, 100, and false.

I will also file a bug on "gnome-system-tools" for the "shares-admin" tool, and will link that bug to this one.

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Áron Sisak (asisak) wrote :

Thanks for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. <http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists> might be a good start.

Changed in nautilus-share:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote :

General note: I have (and I assume a lot of other people as well) an external USB harddrive formatted as NTFS (so that I can access it in Windows and Ubuntu). Typically, such partitions are mounted so that the files are owned by root and if SAMBA prevents me from creating a network share based on a folder located on a disk like this then that's a major inconvenience / bad UX for me (i.e. whenever I want to share a file I have to copy it to my ext3 Linux partition and share it from there).

The particular error message display to end users when they try to share a folder from a NTFS drive is the following:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/EXTERNAL_______/music as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own.
 Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = False"
 to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this.

Ask my administrator? Heh, I wish I could afford one of those :-) This is not newbie friendly.

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Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice) wrote :

Hve you tried to add :
usershare owner only = False
in smb.conf ?
And when you have put it, is usershare able to share external NTFS drive ?

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