Ubuntu
nautilus-share package

Creating public samba share in encrypted directory does not work and is confusing

Bug #666196 reported by Andres
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This bug affects 2 people
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nautilus-share (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus-share

I have encrypted home directory. Sharing a folder in my home directory works, but only without guest access. If guest access is enabled, the share can not be mounted using GUI or guest account. Nautilus says "Unable to mount location" and something like error mouning windows shared folder (translated). Smbclient returns NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME when I try to login as guest or nobody. Smbclient works, when I use my username. With shares under another user with unencrypted home, everything works as expected.

It'd be nice if it just worked.
It'd be OK if "Guest access" was greyed out in encrypted directories and an explaination was displayed.

Nautilus share should not allow users to create useless shares.

I have reproduced it on two installations of 10.04 and now on 10.10. I just didn't figure out before, that it was related to encryption.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus-share (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
makita (bowdrill+ubuntu) wrote :

I think the best way to handle this is to grey out the "Guest access" and display a helpful error message.

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