On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:18:10PM -0000, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > This is not the correct solution for this problem. If you ask a > Windows user (like you are saying that we should),
That's not what I said at all. Quit putting words in my mouth. I said that if you asked a new Ubuntu user: "So, dude, do you think we should put security=share in your smb.conf?", he'll have no clue what you're talking about. Hence, it's completely mistaken to say that "new users expect that their smb.conf says security=share". No, they don't. They expect to be able to share their files. > he will reply that when he shares a directory on Windows, then no > usernames or passwords are required to access the shared resource *by > default*. I find Windows' security model quite uninteresting. > Moreover, the user is shown a simple screen where he can then select > whether to share read-only or read-write. Yes. How is that different from nautilus-share? http://gentoo.ovibes.net/nautilus- share/mediawiki-1.4.4/index.php/NSScreenShots > Thus, if you want to clone Windows here, you should find a way to > share a directory so that there is no username required to access it > *at all*. I am *not* trying to clone Windows. At all. Why would you say that? > And setting security=share achieves exactly this. It might not be the > only solution, but it works. "If you don't want to forget your password for your home banking system, you can just write in on a Post-It and stick it on your monitor. It's not the only solution, but it works." I'm sorry, but I'm not going to solve a problem in a way that creates 27 other problems. You may have the privilege of being able to ignore those 27 other problems. I'm not. We take security *and* usability seriously. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32067 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
