Share name collisions possible between user and global shares

[jhansonxi]

Binary package hint: nautilus-share

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

When a global share is created in /etc/samba/smb.conf (like with shares-admin) the same name can be specified with nautilus-share (/var/lib/samba/usershares).

Example: create a directory /home/public and use shares-admin to share it as "public". Login to a user account and share ~/Public with Nautilus as "Public". Obviously a SMB conflict but no complaints at all (even in logs). The global share seems to take priority.

This may be a Samba bug with the net command as nautilus-share seems to use it to create user shares.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

Bug #297848 is similar to this.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hello jhansonxi, thank you for taking the time to file this bug report and help make Ubuntu better!

This is not really a bug in Samba. Samba is working exactly as it is designed, by having the system level configuration file override any ephemeral shares created with the net command.

I tried to reproduce this issue on Ubuntu 10.10, and it happened as mentioned above. Nautilus-share should warn the user that their share name conflicts with a system level share.

As such, I'm reassigning this bug back to nautilus-share, and marking it as Confirmed.

Setting importance to Low, as this only affects users who have setup system level shares.