"Share folder" does not offer gksudo option.

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I can attempt to share a folder in nautilus by right-clicking the folder, selecting and selecting properties->share.

However, I get the following 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

As I am in admin, "Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share" really doesn't help me figure out what to do next. A workaround is just to run nautilus with sudo. However, I would expect nautilus to automatically offer me the option to use gksudo/policykit to share the folder.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 27 21:09:18 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/bin
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Is your user in the sambashare group and did you restart your session since you install samba?

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report. Is your user in the sambashare group and
Yes
> did you restart your session since you install samba?
No. I just tried restarting, and the problem went away.

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

> Thank you for your bug report. Is your user in the sambashare group and

Yes

> did you restart your session since you install samba?

No. FYI, I just restarted my session, and the problem went away.