> But please, please, at the very least add some tooltip or popup dialog or > text label (or modify > an existing one) that informs the user that he is expected to manually add a > samba user&password!
Not only that, but the password needs to be kept in sync manually. If you change the linux password, then you will have to change the samba password too, with smbpasswd again. Unless you are fine keeping them separate. There is an old mechanism in place to sync the linux password if the samba one is changed via the protocol (see "passwd program" and "passwd chat" in smb.conf(5)), it's almost like an expect script, prone to failures, and I haven't used it in years. Unsure if it's still working. -- 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/1554652 Title: nautilus-share broken with libpam-smbpass removed Status in nautilus-share package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Package libpam-smbpass is removed from 16.04 archives because of bug causing segfault. This makes nautilus-share very confusing since you won't be able to access the shares if they are set with authentication. Users might be stuck thinking file sharing simply doesn't work because of this. Perhaps nautilus-share should have a dialog explaining that a samba password has to be set or have it only with guest access for shares unless the issue with libpam-smbpass is fixed and back in archive. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-share/+bug/1554652/+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
