sharing a folder reports permission issues in Hardy Heron (32 bit)

Bug #245493 reported by marco.pallotta
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samba (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: samba

I right clicked on a folder to create a shared directory and the system reported that it needed some packages (for example samba packages). After its installation my user was inserted in the group smbusers but, obviously, X didn't start with this group credential. So the share didn't run. After restarting X all ran ok.
I think, after installing samba packages, Ubuntu should mark a restart action.

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Marcus Asshauer (mcas) wrote :

Thank you 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. [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.

Changed in samba:
status: New → Invalid
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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

mcas, I think the behavoir I described about the folder sharing is a real bug or, however, there is a bug in the steps that bring to make a share as an unexperienced user couldn't create a share the first time (as Ubuntu didn't tell to him to restart X or the system as whole) and he should spent much time to find a reason to solve the problem (maybe if he came from Windows he should try to reboot anyway :-)
I think that, until to find a better solution, proposing a restart (like the system already do in the notification bar after installing new kernels) could be an immediate, functionally, and maybe simple to implement, solution to solve this bug.

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

For the reason I explained in my previous post I think it's wrong to mark the bug as invalid.

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Setting back to New as this is a usability bug. Users may not realize they have to restart their session for this to work.

Changed in samba:
status: Invalid → New
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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Ill have a look at this for intrepid. Thanks for the bug report.

Regards
chuck

Changed in samba:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Chuck Short, any update on working on this bug?

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