Ubuntu
nautilus package

Scary message when trying to share a folder via nautilus

Bug #18644 reported by RichardKinder on 2005-07-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #13098: Should depend on samba or NFS. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

The message dialog that pops up when trying to share a folder within nautilus is
quite scary for un-technical users - NFS and Samba are meaningless words for the
average user. The dialog needs to give the user an indication of how to achieve
their goal - that is, sharing a folder. The dialog needs either a brief
description of what to do (System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager then
install the 'XYZ' package) or have a 'help' button that links to documentation
specifying how to install samba, nfs etc. and how to set them up.

At the very minimum, an brief indication of how to install Samba/NFS should be
given, and the 'The tool will now close' sentence should be removed (it is too
non-specific - what is 'The tool'?)

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RichardKinder (richard-kinder) wrote on 2005-07-04:

Screenshot of the scary dialog Edit (28.0 KiB, image/jpeg)

Created an attachment (id=2893)
Screenshot of the scary dialog

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-07-05:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13098.