> I said that if you asked a new Ubuntu user: "So, dude, do you think we
> should put security=share in your smb.conf?", he'll have no clue what
> you're talking about. Hence, it's completely mistaken to say that "new
> users expect that their smb.conf says security=share". No, they don't.
> They expect to be able to share their files.

At what point has anyone suggested asking an Ubuntu user what settings
he would like to set in her SMB.conf? The setting of security=share is
merely one of a few solutions in making windows file sharing on Ubuntu
simpler. If enabled by default, the user would not have to alter
smb.conf at all.

I do appreciate that you are trying to combine usability and security,
but simply ignoring the fact that many users are using Ubuntu machines
in a mixed network with Windows ones is surely not a good idea. If an
Ubuntu user, at the moment, shares a folder, a windows user CANNOT
access the folder without access to the Ubuntu users ID, or creating his
own. Secure or not, this is not usable.

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the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome 
sharing broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32067
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