Comment 5 for bug 24184

A suggestion could also be that when a user set up a new share, it is asked to specify which account can access it, and if one or some of this accounts do not have a Samba encrypted password, a a graphical front-end to smbpasswd should come up and ask the user to specify for those account a password.
Of course, "sudo" authentication might apply in this case.

I think this bug should be moved from wishlist to Feisty+1 mandatory, because I am helping countless user with this issue on the Ubuntu forums! The main feedback from those who write one is that it is almost impossible for them to figure out such tricks, also using the command line to be able to share directories is probably not "for human beings" or let's say that it does not "just work" ;-)
My deep apologise to have re-use Ubuntu well known moto, but I hope to promote this bug to a higher priority :-)