I can confirm this to be a problem. There is no way to create a share out of the box with the release of 8.04 hardy. This WAS working wonderfully in Gutsy 7.10. There was a folder sharing GUI on the admin menu under system tools, this seems to have been removed from Hardy 8.04.
I happen to agree with the expectations of the OP Thomas Boutell, this should just work out of the box or there should be a readily obvious way to get folder/file sharing working again like it was in Gutsy. Why on earth was a completely functional feature of 7.10 removed from Hardy ????? I know how to edit the smb.conf file to make sharing function, I'm not looking for advice from someone to get sharing working, I spent 2 years looking and reading how to do it, I'm reporting that file sharing is broken, there are no hints in Hardy suggesting or pointing the less skilled users how to share files or even change workgroups.....Why does anyone think that everyone in the world uses the default workgroup MSHOME that ubuntu defaults to, and why is there no GUI location in the network tools to change the default workgroup ? I get the very same error when I try to enable a share folder: "'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." I am an administrator on my computer, not a desktop user, I should be asked for a password to grant the permissions to cause the sharing activity to suceed. Since I have no clue how to grant the permissions to my self to share a folder the error message above is useless to me and other normal linux desktop users. I hate having to edit a conf ( I also hate having to spend days and days having to search for the conf file needed to make the changes in) file in text mode, there are way too many possibilities to toast a system guys, give us non linux experts a gui that helps us do what we want without risking toasting our system. -- "share folder" does not appear https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
