[shares-admin] Sharing a folder does not create SMB account
Bug #73564 reported by
Onno Benschop
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #14774: [shares-admin] Shared folders requires a login.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
Setting up a shared folder, using SMB, does not actually create the Samba user, requiring the user to run the following command before access is possible:
sudo smbpasswd -a `whoami`
The symptom on a WinNT host is that it continues to prompt for a password.
I strongly suspect that a desktop user would expect that the SMB account is the same as their login account, even though the two are separate, suggesting that the username and password should be synchronised.
It is possible that this bug report needs to be assigned to samba, but I hesitate to do that because it is the GUI that is hiding (and missing) the functionality.
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