I was actually wondering where shares-admin went and after a few days of
Googling I found your post. I actually though I was the only one having
this problem.

I think its an outstanding bug. This used to work out of the box before
but it seems that development is not going to continue on the direction
of shares-admin since the next update of XFCE 4.8 (hopefully this june
according to the xfce website) especially thunar will have network
shares built in. This might be the reason for excluding shares-admin
from the system menu but still exists for transition purposes.

Shared-folders will actually install the needed files and programs but
because of the bug it will only allow you to create the workgroup name
which will be written/saved to the SAMBA configuration file located in
"/etc/samba/samba.conf". Sharing actual folders does not seem to work.
To share folders you have manually write and save the configuration to
samba.conf. You can use and edit the CDROM example in that files to
create your own read only configuration setting. For more configuration
setting visit the official samba site at http://www.samba.org.

Meanwhile to fill in the gap of actually browsing the network shares in
thunar until 4.8, a combination of Gigolo and gvfs-fuse will do the
trick. Access the shares via Gigolo and gvfs-fuse will open the share in
thunar. Installation of gvs-fuse is required,after that a restart and
then browse away. File operations depend on sharing permission settings
via Samba. This is actually the next best thing to native file-share
browsing as provided by gnome or kde.

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shares-admin doesn't "see" NFS and SMB installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574046
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