[Bug 592610] Re: Shared folders (through Samba) when following instructions sometimes does not work correctly

[koanhead]

I have discovered that using the GUI to share a folder (via right-clicking in Nautilus) does not make any changes to smb.conf - I'm not sure where the information is stored, but I'm guessing it's somewhere in gconf (a quick check in gconf-editor didn't turn it up, but I'm not a gconf expert). 
Splitting up configuration data like this is Bad and Wrong, especially if the share doesn't work right at first and the user then goes and edits smb.conf manually. If your testparm output does not agree with the output of net usershare logon then that could be a sign of this split configuration issue.
IMO this is a bug in Nautilus (one I haven't filed yet, but that's my next stop). GNOME should not split configs. If config data *must* be kept in gconf then it should be sync'd with the existing config files.

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