[Bug 490380] Re: Please set option inherit owner by default on guest-enabled SMB shares

[Fabio Bossi]

OK, maybe setting that option is not the right thing to do, but I still
have a strong feeling that something must be changed. New users who want
to share files between their Ubuntu and Windows PC and create a guest-
enabled share will be outraged when they find out that they cannot read
their files. It would be best to completely remove the allow guests
option from the GUI IMHO.


** Summary changed:

- Please set option inherit owner by default on guest-enabled SMB shares
+ Please remove the "accept guests" option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: samba
  
  Steps to reproduce:
  
  1) Right clicking on  a folder  in Nautilus and choose "sharing options"
  2) Set up an SMB share with write permissions and check the "accept guests" option
  3) Using a Windows PC, create a new file (or copy a file) into the new share (no password prompt appears)
  4) See how the Ubuntu user cannot access the file without becoming root from command line
- 
- I suggest setting the default owner of the new files in the share to the user who created the share. I know that an option
- for that in smb.conf exists.

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
       Status: Won't Fix => New

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Please remove the "accept guests" option from the GUI since it creates confusion for new users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490380
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