Comment 4 for bug 215810

Whoops, how did I misread that?

Okay, so the nautilus-share package will be in the final release but was absent from the beta.

I installed nautilus-share. I then restarted Nautilus with nautilus -q.

I then saw the sharing options choice on the right-click menu, and went for that, and tried to set up a share of a subfolder of my home folder.

Then I got this error:

'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied

You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share.

I still get this error if I disable the write access and guest access options.

What I expected to happen:

Either (a) it should "just work" (I've heard rumors of something called "simple sharing," where and what is it?) or (b) I should get a root password escalation prompt and then it should work.

Thanks for your help!