Comment 3 for bug 103563

General note: I have (and I assume a lot of other people as well) an external USB harddrive formatted as NTFS (so that I can access it in Windows and Ubuntu). Typically, such partitions are mounted so that the files are owned by root and if SAMBA prevents me from creating a network share based on a folder located on a disk like this then that's a major inconvenience / bad UX for me (i.e. whenever I want to share a file I have to copy it to my ext3 Linux partition and share it from there).

The particular error message display to end users when they try to share a folder from a NTFS drive is the following:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/EXTERNAL_______/music as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own.
 Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = False"
 to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this.

Ask my administrator? Heh, I wish I could afford one of those :-) This is not newbie friendly.