I went through the "upgrade to hardy" process a little over a week ago and I run into a serious problem which is very much related to this.
I basically have two 500GB USB harddrives formatted as NTFS connect to my Ubuntu machine. On these drives I have over 20 different SMB shares each and the upgrade process automatically DELETED ALL MY SHARES WITH NO WARNING WHAT SO EVER AND WITH NO CHANCE OF RECOVERY. This caused a some serious downtime problems for me. On top of that, once I got hardy up and running I could not even fix these problems because hardy will, as the bug explains, not let you share files owned by root due to the "usershare owner only = False" flag being default in Ubuntu. Imagine all the people that are running small servers with NTFS partitions like I do. This is not a nice experience for them during upgrade. The bug that I filed about the broken upgrade process was closed as a duplicate of this bug (even though they are in fact slightly different). Please have a look at my original bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/214714 Sharing folders on NTFS drives is an important use case and it worked perfectly in previous versions of Ubuntu (so this is a regression and people are very unforgiving about regressions). I'd very much give my vote to fixing this before (or soon after) the hardy release. -- "Share Folder" in right-click menu does not share ntfs drive folders https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175689 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
