Comment 2 for bug 85000

I have solved my problem... when first creating a samba share I did not know that samba has a seperate list of users from the normal login of ubuntu...

I still consider this issue a bug because It should be much easier to set up sharing in ubuntu, i shouldn't have to go into the terminal to create a samba shared user... maybe when you create a share, ubuntu should automatically add the user that wants to share the file to the samba list of users, or ask to specify a user/password to share with. so that you are not left thinking that sharing in ubuntu doesn't work...

after scouring the forums I was able to get my sharing up and running... its great now that its working, but setup could be even easier... with no need for terminal... OS X seems to be very good at this.