Comment 42 for bug 536766

This is a rather old bug, but I have been tasked to look into this for 13.10. This bug has mixed in a couple of issues over time. Here is what I believe is the current state and what this bug should really be about.

- The bug title references only Personal File Sharing Preferences, but description also references Nautilus as well. I think this bug should only be used to track the issue in Personal File Sharing Preferences.

- The "Desired resolution" posted by Design (John Lea) in the bug description is for Nautilus, but now Nautilus will prompt the user to install needed services when trying to use file sharing. What is in Nautilus now is quite nice, so I'll follow up with John on this.

 - Back to Personal File Sharing Preferences. Currently (13.10), it still only gives the message that required packages are missing and gives no clue as to what packages are needed or even better, offer to install the needed packages. The needed package is apache2 (and dependencies) because Bluez uses WebDAV to transfer files and WebDAV is provided by apache2.

I'm not sure who is responsible for gnome-user-share in Ubuntu, so I'll try poking around to see what can be done about Personal File Sharing Preferences.