[Bug 562960] Re: folder sharing in gnome not working in Lucid

[Michael van der Kolff]

Per Nicolo's remarks, they are spot on.  Encrypting home directories is
also a common choice that is incompatible with sharing the home
directory.  Public directory, as always, remains sharable.

Quick brainstorm on fixing this - Perhaps a script that works under sudo that:
(a) If home directory is encrypted, advise user to share stuff out of ~/Public;
(b) Run a script under sudo, perhaps controlled by a group (samba-sharers?) that runs a mount --bind ${HOMEDIR}/Public/share /var/lib/samba/usershares/${SHARENAME}
(c) net usershare /var/lib/samba/usershares/${SHARENAME}

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Michael

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folder sharing in gnome not working in Lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562960
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