Comment 25 for bug 215810

On Wednesday 25,November,2009 06:25 PM, PeterNZ wrote:
> Frankly this is pathetic. I have combed these sites for two days now
> simply trying to share a folder in 8.04 LTS and it's a needle in the
> haystack looking for advice.
Frankly speaking, it's quite a straightforward task so most people get it
without needing to search for advice. Advice generally appears for stuff that's
complex, and hence you don't find much advice for something as simple as this.

> I've installed Nautilus Share (doesn't work, simply resets - after reboot).
> Installed Samba (which is overkill anyway) and which I don't really
> understand.
No it isn't overkill. Nautilus Share is a plugin for Nautilus which allows you
to create Samba shares by right clicking on folders. Samba is what actually
hosts those shares and allows people to connect to it. It isn't installed by
default because sharing folders isn't something everybody does, and Samba is
quite big, afaik.

> Why can you not share your files with other users on the same
> authentication system without having to jump through a million hoops? It
> should be a right click - select user -done!
It is that simple. You right click on a folder, click on properties, go to the
"Share" tab, click the checkbox that says "Share this folder", enter a share
name and it's done. And maybe check a few other checkboxes if that's what you
want on the share dialog.

After that, Windows XP computers and other Ubuntu computers *should* be able to
see the share. However, many Windows XP computers *suck* badly at detecting
other computers on the network, so it can take some time for the share to
appear, or not at all. The best way is to get your IP address and access it as
"\\<ip address>\sharename" from Windows computers or "smb://<ip
address>/sharename" on Ubuntu and other *nixes like Fedora, Mac, etc.

> Its stupid stuff like this that makes people return to XP.
Thank you for expressing your comments in such a hostile manner. It's stupid
things like this that really warms my heart (read: makes my blood boil).

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin