Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-12 Thread email . bug
> we don't break existing setups and we > provide additional functionality. Yes, it should be fine to adjust the compile time defaults, to avoid config file handling, and to require to set as few options as possible explicitly in the default config in debian and in the installations. Thanks agai

Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-12 Thread email . bug
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Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: Bug#672497: Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
OK, after some more thinking during my morning run, I decided it's probably worth the change: we don't break existing setups and we provide additional functionality. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-12 Thread email . bug
> My concern is that "map to guest" not only affects user shares but > also regular shares. Let's see. This may mostly only be the case with the "map to guest = bad user" option. (Because "usershare allow guests = yes" is usershare specific.) What happens without the bad user mapping? Clients h

Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > > To enabling this funtionality, one still needs to add the following settings > > manually: > > usershare allow guests = yes > > map to guest = bad user > > Note that these two settings are both included in Ubuntu as part of the > delta to Debian. I

Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-11 Thread email . bug
> samba package settings to diverge from upstream defaults I understand that the usershares option was already a deviation from the upstream default, to enable usershares. The public share options might just have been forgotten at that time. BTW for ad-hock shares II prefer public shares, beca

Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 05:13:41PM +0200, email@arcor.de wrote: > The default samba configuration in debian allows regular users to > create shares with "net usershare" and its (filemanager) GUI frontends. > (as of #443230) > However, users are not able to make their shares public. > (e.g. na

Bug#672497: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting email@arcor.de (email@arcor.de): > As the system shares defined in the default config have explicit > "guest ok = no" lines, it looks to me that it should not produce a problem to > add these settings to the default global section, or define them at compile > time. > > Neverthe

Bug#672497: full support for usershares (public shares)

2012-05-11 Thread email . bug
Package: samba The default samba configuration in debian allows regular users to create shares with "net usershare" and its (filemanager) GUI frontends. (as of #443230) However, users are not able to make their shares public. (e.g. nautilus-shares option is grayed out) To enabling this funtiona