Sharing the 'public' folder causes buggy behaviour

[Nick Glynn]

Binary package hint: nautilus

On right clicking a directory to enable sharing, the automatic downloader is invoked to fetch and install samba/nfs. This installs without hitch but when completed the same prompt continues to appear until cancelled (which is bad!).

After this the file is still not shared, however reselecting the folder and attempting to share again causes a PolicyKit popup to appear to authenticate but this is not given focus and prevents tabbing/selecting the window to see the settings. Blindly typing in my password removed the prompt and allowed me to select to share the folder as originally desired.

Confusing behaviour!

nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 19 16:44:17 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the tools has been dropped, the bug is deprecated now