i can't even get access with the owner's credentials (21.10) -- should
this be working?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468224

Title:
  nautilus-share allows sharing only with login password

Status in nautilus-share package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nautilus-share

  nautilus-share only allows two ways to access a given shared folder:
  either as a guest (with no password) or with the credentials of the
  owner of the folder. This is a problem. The user should be able to
  share a folder with an arbitrary username/password combination.

  For example: imagine that at university, which is covered by a large
  wireless network. I wish to share notes from class with other
  students, so I put the notes in a shared folder and tell them the name
  of my computer, and a username and password to acess the folder. But
  which username/password? I want to ensure that only these people
  download the files, so I don't want to allow guest (passwordless)
  access, but I emphatically don't want to give out my login password to
  every student in class. Instead, I want a separate username/password
  that applies only to this shared folder, and does not correspond to a
  login credential on my computer (which would be a major security
  problem!). I should be able to do this directly from within nautilus-
  share, without, e.g. laboriously creating a new user on my machine for
  each shared folder, or dropping to a command-line to call smbpasswd.

  nautilus-share should allow the user to specify any arbitrary
  username/password combination directly on the Sharing page, or it
  should allow the user to select any number of users to give access to
  the folder, and the list of users should come from a domain controler
  or LDAP server.

  This applies to Karmic using nautilus-share  0.7.2-12.

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