Comment 47 for bug 212098

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blahblahblah (noyfb1977) wrote :

Hi, I thought I'd chime in. I'm a java programmer with 14 year of Win32 experience.
I'm a ubuntu virgin though. When I tried to share a folder I did it like I would on OSX/win32: First, I tried to share a drive (fail), so I then tried a folder, found the 'sharing option'.

Went in there, added the non-installed bits, and when I tried to create my share, bang, error message '255 etc'. Barely noticeable as well since the message is displayed at the bottom of the window.

So what do you think a linux virgin did? I remembered about this 'gksudo' thing,... you imagine the rest.

This IS a bug - the only way around it would be 1) make sure it's shareable immediately or 2) inform the user clearly that a re-login is needed.

My two cents of course. Oh and by the way, a 'normal' user would be unable to even find this launchpad page, and would give up on sharing folders in ubuntu very quickly.