On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:39 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 10:30 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:44 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
>
> > nautilus-share
>
> The purpose of this tool is to make it easier to share folders with
> windows clients (using Samba) - users get the ability to share their own
> folders.
>
> It is sad to see it so unloved, but it really needs to be part of the
> default configuration of the Samba deamon (as having to edit the
> smb.conf is the part it was trying to avoid).
>
> It would be nice to see a Fedora owner for it again some day, them maybe
> Samba won't be the target of the linux-hater as much :-)
>
>
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/of-silos-and-samba.html
>
> (I think this tool got written when SuSE was working really hard on
> making this stuff 'just work' for their distribution).
The problem is that the implementation is broken in a number of ways.
Such as? I've never had reason to use it myself...
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
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