On 30/06/09 13:18, Rocko wrote: > This is a usability bug. The behaviour has improved considerably in > Jaunty, eg: > > 1. Attach an ntfs external drive. > > 2. Try to share a folder through nautilus. > > 3. The share dialog says: > > 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path > /media/disk1/test as we are restricted to only sharing directories we own. > Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = false" > to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this. > > 4. If you follow the instructions and then click on the 'share' button, > samba shares the folder (and there's no need to restart samba). > > > A more user-friendly option would be the alternative steps 3 and 4: > > 3. Assuming that the current user has admin rights, the share dialog > presents a window that explains you need to enable sharing of non-owned > folders, and to prompt for the admin password to do so. > > 4. Upon entry of the admin password, samba alters its smb.conf file and > shares the folder. > > Hi, yes that is the error i get, Rocko's suggested steps 3 and 4 are inline with what i had in mind...
-- nautilus-share can't share ntfs/fat32 folders https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214420 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
