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Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Aug 5 04:20:33 UTC 2008


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
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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