Comment 30 for bug 456808

This doesn't have "low importance", this is invalid as a bug report.

Saying "samba is too damn complicated, underdocumented, error-prone and dependent of other network characteristics to be easily used as a default file sharing solution" is true, but it's not a bug. Nor is "samba is not working for me".

I perfectly agree that file sharing could use a lot of simplification and that effort should be spent on that. There is not a single bug that, if fixed, would make it work for everyone. As a gathering point for every single user that failed to setup file sharing in karmic, this bug is useless. It's perfectly working for most people. There is a variety of specific bugs or missing documentation, each different, that prevents you from completing a file sharing setup. Sometimes it's samba that doesn't play nice with your DNS, sometimes it's samba not starting etc. If you can point to a specific issue that is reproducible, file a new bug rather than adding your "samba fails for me as well" comment here. In parallel, adding your voice to brainstorm.ubuntu.com on how much we should make file sharing simpler could help.

Filing fuzzy bugs and insulting developers is not the preferred way to go. There are plenty of other important, well-detailed and politely-filed bugs we can spend our limited efforts on.