Comment 76 for bug 212098

Yes, providing the default sambashare group + creating NTLM hash on the fly can be a good solution, but as you told, a little big overkill :)

The bubble has already been discussed in desktop team meeting and have been discared. This is enhanced with the goal of having no actions in notifications (cf http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/253).

Finally, considering bug 238224, I do not know where it is currently in intrepid (reminder : sudoers are in sambashare group by default), but I think that this bug is adressed in user-setup because it is the current behavior in hardy. Let be consistant.

BTW, everyone agree that the best way will be not to have to do all this trick and switch user group dynamically, but that seems to be quite a complicated and very deep level hack!