Comment 6 for bug 14774
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| Robin Haswell (rob-digital-crocus) wrote Re: Shared folders requires a login | #6 |
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I just posted this on Ubuntu Forums:
Hey guys
I dunno if you've heard this a million times before or not, but I'm just putting it out there because I can find very little about this on the forums:
For Dapper to be the quality release that everyone wants it to be, and for it to compete as a Windows migration platform, folder sharing with Windows is important. Here are my views:
1. Share management works a treat. No complaint about this
However
2. That's not even half the battle. In every Ubuntu version I've used (Hoary -> Dapper), Shared Folders has never worked because people are required to login, and there is no UI (and very few hints) on adding users. I'm told you need to add a unix account then set an smbpasswd (sudo smbpasswd -a user) for it. Apparently this works, but it's difficult to discover (IE. you have to find a thread on the forums then *shock* open a terminal).
I think there should be a UI for performing this operation. However, this isn't really necessary. I am absolutely certain though that the Shared Folders UI should inform users why shared folders doesn't work immediately, and what do do about it. This will allow 99% of people to successfully share folders with other people.
One other problem is sharing mounted NTFS drives doesn't work. I'm working through this at the moment, but I don't think it's terribly important to fix this bug.