[Bug 32067] Re: the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen]

I have two questions:

1. will this bug finally be fixed in Hardy?
2. has the 'correct' solution been a mystery for all these years? (the "Map to guest = Bad User")
3. will you make the fact that it finally works part of the official Hardy Release Notes?

I know this sounds like frustration. (it is) But given the way this has
taken place, you can expect us to be cynical about this bug getting
fixed even when the fix is known, after all these years... you have to
give us (me) some slack here. We've spent cumulatively hours, perhaps
even days, whereas a server-expert would have been able to fix this in
minutes. (considering we were side-tracked by user=share and the info is
in the man-page of smb.conf)

But if this fix really does land in Hardy. I would like to nominate it for the official release notes. 
It would be the first Ubuntu release with working Samba for the end-user. 

Sounds like a major feature to me. Bigger than vineagre, kvm and pulse-audio-by-default. 
Something users will really notice. 

And if its not in the release-notes, everybody is going to the terminal,
doing sudo gedit /etc/smb.conf and setting it to user=share. (which
appearantly is unsafe.). Because at this point, everybody expects the
gui to be broken.

2 years. 83 comments. and all we needed was Guest Login = Bad User.

Wow.

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the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32067
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