On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:46:51PM -0000, Ricardo Graça wrote: > If I'm not mistaken this only affects non-Administrator user accounts. > It is happening on my fresh installation of 13.10.
Well, I don't think anything can be done from the perspective of non-administrator user accounts. As a non-administrative user, you're not able to add yourself to sambashare, and hence nautilus-share can't take care of this for you under your own account. This means the error message is valid, and you do need to ask your system's administrator to add you to sambashare. The only usecase that would be valid for fixing in this case would be an administrative user who happens to not be in the sambashare group -- then nautilus-share could perhaps invoke a privileged helper through policykit to help the user add him/herself into the sambashare group. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus-share in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995406 Title: User not added to group sambashare: "You do not have permission to create a usershare." Status in nautilus-share package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I tried to share a folder and was prompted to install samba, which I accepted. I did not install pam-smbpass as I don't need it. I was prompted to log out and in again, which I did. Now I get this when creating a share: --- 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permission denied You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share. --- It looks like the user was not added to the group sambashare at all (which script is supposed to do this? Where is the log file?). Manually running # sudo usermod -a -G sambashare jakob fixes the issue. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nautilus-share 0.7.3-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun May 6 11:37:08 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328) SourcePackage: nautilus-share UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-share/+bug/995406/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp