Comment 2 for bug 312346

On Sunday 10,January,2010 09:41 AM, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
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> Ubuntu 8.10
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> Package:
> I don't know if this is a Gnome problem, but I'm using Gnome 2.24.1. apt-cache and Synaptic both claim that Gnome is not installed, whatever that means.
>
> I used the file browser to make my ~/Public directory available through
> the router to my roommate's computer, which also runs Ubuntu 8.10. When
> I first set it up, I was able to upload a file to his computer.
>
> Expectation:
> Any time my computer is on, the directory should automatically be available on the network.
The share should already be available on the network, but usually it will take
some time for other computer to notice it being available. In addition to that,
Windows' detection of shares is generally horrible and works very
intermittently. This is not a nautilus-share bug, nor a samba bug, as the same
thing happens with other Windows computers as well.
>
> What actually happened:
> If I restart my computer, the directory is no longer on the network. When I go to Places>Home Folder, the Public directory no longer shows the hand icon in the upper right corner. I right-click on it and choose Sharing Options. The "Share this folder" box is still checked.
This is a bug in nautilus that does not query the extensions for emblems of the
XDG standard folders (~/Documents, ~/Pictures, etc). The share is actually
already shared, just that the emblem does not appear. If you rename it to
something else, the emblem will appear.
  duplicate 280480
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> Workaround:
> If turn off sharing for that folder, then turn it back on again, it seems to work normally.
>
> I would guess it's a problem with setting up shared directories at boot
> time.
This workaround is just to get nautilus to realize that the share exists. Samba,
which actually handles the shares, already does.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer