Comment 30 for bug 14774

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and help to improve Ubuntu.

I believe this bug has been resolved for hardy, with the removal of shares-admin from gnome-system-tools. The nautilus-share package which replaces it supports both anonymous and authenticated shares.

The issue with home directories being shared by default was separately resolved by way of the samba package in dapper.

Finally, the issue of needing to call smbpasswd separately in order to access password-protected shares is now being tracked as a bug in the pam package: bug #201291.