too complicated error message in nautilus-share

[old_toby]

Binary package hint: nautilus-share

In Hardy Beta (nautilus-share 0.7.2)

1. in nautilus, right-click on your home folder (which normally has the same name as the user)
2. choose sharing options
3. check "share this folder"
4. click "create share"

error message:
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: share name simon is already a valid system user name

This error message is not very user-friendly, it could be replaced with something better like "There is already a system user called blabliblabla. Usershares can't have the same name as system users." or similar.

[old_toby (simon-hornweb)]

@ Luka who marked it as a duplicate of #211966: Read both bugs another time, it's not related at all.

[Lukas Zronek (lukas-z)]

sry, looked very similar. next time I will be more carefully

[Mikel Ward (mikelward)]

Sounds like the latest version of Samba might not have this restriction.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/Current/samba-187.8/patches/allow-home-share-as-usershare

[William Ranvaud (wiranvaud)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. I couldn't reproduce the bug in latest Ubuntu version 11.04.
When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running on Terminal
apport-collect 209770
and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.
Ubuntu 8.04's support ended on 12 May 2011 for desktops, I will invalidate this bug for the time being.