End of my answer : About : "I was able to configure shares using system-config-samba - that worked fine (and I think is probably the correct way todo it)."
It's not what is described in the french documentation of the new releases of Ubuntu http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/samba and it's surprising ! Ubuntu wants to be easy. It ask you different things to share a folder and you should do things that it doesn't ask... And system-config-samba looks to write in smb.conf file while ckecking the share tab of the folder properties write in var/lib/samba/usershares. It looks like 2 different ways ? Thanks ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995817 Title: share samba doesn't work easily To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/995817/+subscriptions -- 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