Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 427413
feature request: usershares support
Last modified: 2016-08-10 08:48:35 EDT
Description of problem: system-config-samba doesn't support very useful feature of samba: usershares (non-root, non-config sharing). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.58-1
you don't like, but I don't care. you should support all options, especially such useful like usershares, so... P.I.N.G.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Hm, indeed it would be nice to have a configuration for that. I stumbled across this bug looking for "usershare" because I want the thunar-plugin (similar to nautilus-share but for xfce) to setup a share. It took me a while to find all the necessary steps in the samba documentation. A little help from the system (f10 here) would be nice. (By the way, there appears to be no system-config-samba on my system -- samba is installed.)
Bump version to Rawhide, after this feature request popped up on fedora-devel list.
we request the following things: 1. system-config-samba have a tab to enable/disable user shares and when enabled it should be able to set the following options usershare max shares = 100 usershare allow guests = yes usershare owner only = no maybe it should mkdir/chown/chmod /var/lib/samba/usershare 2. the default smb.conf should have it enabled by default [but if 1 is done, then this is not a must] 3. apply my patch to nautilus-share https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477329 the .src.rpm can be found on ojuba.org site http://www.ojuba.org/downloads/releases/2/Everything/source/SRPMS/nautilus-share-0.7.2-14.oj2.src.rpm oj2 is based on F10
(In reply to comment #5) > we request the following things: > 1. system-config-samba have a tab to enable/disable user shares and when > enabled it should be able to set the following options > usershare max shares = 100 > usershare allow guests = yes > usershare owner only = no > maybe it should mkdir/chown/chmod /var/lib/samba/usershare Enabling usershare withouth defining a path and setting up that path doesn't make much sense IMO. You would expect usershares to work simply by using system-config-samba while it won't if it doesn't do the additional steps. Also, what about a usershare group? > 2. the default smb.conf should have it enabled by default [but if 1 is done, > then this is not a must] I'm not sure if enabling by default is what people want. However, if you do it, you should still restrict it to members of a usershare group I guess.
the path is defined to be /var/lib/samba/usershare and in ojuba 2 it's created and owned by samaba-common package and regarding the usershare group, if you mean the group owning the path, then I made it 1777 like /tmp as our target users are home users > I'm not sure if enabling by default is what people want. ok, then it's like this, it's disabled by default but s-c-samba can enable it [on admin request] and create the path and do all necessary steps like creating the group ..etc.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Mark this potential future feature to at least keep it open.
*** Bug 517671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I found bug 517671 being practically a duplicate of this so I closed it. However in bug 517671 Muayyad Alsadi created a patch which adds a new configuration tab for user shares (it's only UI sample which needs to be connected with some code). It could be really useful for implementing this feature, so don't forget about it.
There's a nautilus plugin for user shares, very useful if for moving files to/from windows machines. could enable user shares by hand but would rather upstream support
Thanks for taking the time to submit this request for enhancement. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to implement this feature, sorry for that. Because I don't actively develop system-config-samba anymore, I won't likely find the time to work on this ticket, so I'll close this bug now.