Nautilus Sharing options requires root password, but does not ask

[Steve Sutton]

When I try and create a shared folder in Nautilus as a normal user it gives an error message "Cannot hange permissions of the folder". This occurs when i click the create share button in the sharing options dialog. This error occurs no matter what permissions i have set on the folder (even when it is set to 777). But it is resolved if nautilus is run as root. However when run as a normal user, nautilus does not ask for my password to do this particular operation, so i am left to launch it myself as root from the command line.

This is important to fix as noobs will not know how to get around this

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is your user in the sambashare group which is required?

[Steve Sutton (stevesutt89)]

my username is in the sambashare group name. And when i go to Users and Groups in System>>Administration and check the properties of my username i see that "Share files with a local network" is selected

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Do :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install samba libpam-smbpass

After that logout and login

Create a dir on you desk called "test"
Try to share it

[Steve Sutton (stevesutt89)]

I installed libpam-smbpass and sharing from the desktop worked and then removed it again, and sharing folders from ext3 filesystems works fine. What i failed to realise before was that i was trying to share folders from a fat32 system, which the installation of libpam-smbpass did not fix. So, the bug, as experienced by me, is now "Nautilus Sharing options requires root password on fat32 filesystems, but does not ask". My apologies for not realising this before.