I'll go through the whole thing from scratch, following instructions as I get them from the GUI & see where it gets me I just walked into the other room & sat down at an ol Pentium III pc that is hooked to my printer. I added Mint9 [last week] to this PC, because it's easier to use than 10.04 using the graphical interface. I can generally stick to using software from the manager & synaptic. I update usually within a few hours of when I notice there is a notifications. I went to my home folder & right clicked documents, clicked share options got asked for permission [root I guess], gave it told I needed other packages & was asked if wanted to install the packages to do windows shares, clicked install Samba & lib-something[dependency] installed I filled in the share popup the icon now shows an outstretched hand went to my other computer I don't see any other computers on the network? I go to network & click through the menus, don't see anything that appears to be relevant I go to system[control center in mint] click Personal file sharing & get a message "this feature cannot be enabled Because the required packages are not installed on your system" I go to help, which says I should go to startup preferences I scroll through the list & see that personal file sharing is enabled at this point I'm at an impass, so I go have a look at synaptic & type personal file sharing into search, no results change to file sharing, 65 results I scroll through the list & see 9 of them are already installed File Gnome-user-share Giver Samba Common Libwclient Samba Common-bin Samba Client Samba I'll stop here for the time being at least on the PC which has not had a bunch of stuff installed
at the very least the help file & or on screen prompts should lead you to successfully sharing 1 folder, it should be a little more difficult to share the entire home folder just for security sake It's a shame to be so close & not go the rest of the way with graphical method of file sharing that doesn't require finding information through searching forums or the rest of the internet. this basic task should be described adequately on help or through prompts/error messages within the process of right clicking a folder. I understand that when you deal with the intricacies of an operating system on a day to day basis, it can be difficult to look at things with the eyes of a newbie Let me know if there is any way I can help? :) -- Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes does not work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592610 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
