General note: I have (and I assume a lot of other people as well) an
external USB harddrive formatted as NTFS (so that I can access it in
Windows and Ubuntu). Typically, such partitions are mounted so that the
files are owned by root and if SAMBA prevents me from creating a network
share based on a folder located on a disk like this then that's a major
inconvenience / bad UX for me (i.e. whenever I want to share a file I
have to copy it to my ext3 Linux partition and share it from there).
The particular error message display to end users when they try to share
a folder from a NTFS drive is the following:
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path
/media/EXTERNAL_______/music 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.
Ask my administrator? Heh, I wish I could afford one of those :-) This is not
newbie friendly.
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Usershare should be set up (but not enabled by default)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103563
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